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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464258203321

Autore

Cooper Jonathon A. <1982->

Titolo

Twentieth-century influences on twenty-first-century policing : continued lessons of police reform / / Jonathon A. Cooper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015

©2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Disciplina

363.230973

Soggetti

Police - United States

Police misconduct - United States

Police administration - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 A Primer on the History of American Policing; 3 The Due Process Revolution and the Warren Court; 4 Civil Rights and the Police; 5 A Due Process Approach in the Face of Police Conservatism; 6 The Systems Approach to Criminal Justice; 7 Social Science Research; 8 A Rising Crime Rate and Police Corruption; 9 What Professional Policing Then Means for 21st Century Policing Now; References; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing </span><span>argues that to fully understand contemporary American policing, we must first understand its historical origins in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. Such a historical grounding is further employed to consider where policing is heading now in the twenty-first century. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>