Introduction -- A primer on the history of American policing -- The due process revolution and the Warren Court -- Civil rights and the police -- A due process approach in the face of police conservatism -- The systems approach to criminal justice -- Social science research -- A rising crime rate and police corruption -- What professional policing then means for 21st century policing now
Summary
Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing 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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-153) and index
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