Policing a Class Society: The Experience of American Cities, 1865-1915 by Sidney L. Harring

Policing a Class Society: The Experience of American Cities, 1865-1915

Crime, Law & Deviance

Sidney L. Harring

301 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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Police are popularly understood as the "thin blue line" that "serves and protects" us from violence and crime in the pursuit of justice.In Policing a Class Society, Sidney L. Harring provides an essential corrective to the ideas that police have a...

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