Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing : Continued Lessons of Police Reform.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (169 pages)
Intro -- 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.
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.