TY  - BOOK
AU  - French,Laurence
TI  - The history of policing America: from militias and military to the law enforcement of today 
SN  - 9781538102039 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - HV8138 .F734 2018
U1  - 363.20973 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield
KW  - Law enforcement
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Police
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Origins of U.S. Law Enforcement: Militias, Military, Marshals, and Sheriffs -- Introduction: Colonial Roots in Policing America -- Introduction to the Origins of American Jurisprudence -- Growing Pains-1783-1865: Insurrections, Rebellions, and Indian Removal -- Post-Civil War Unrest and Social Control during the Nineteenth Century Part II: Law and Order in the Americas and Beyond, 1898-1946 -- U.S. Colonial Expansionism in the Caribbean and Pacific -- Reinforcing WASP White Supremacy: Eugenics and Prohibition -- Post-World War II Challenges to Law Enforcement Part III: Civil Rights Aftermath: Increased Militarization and Racial Myths Enhancement -- The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act -- Role of Academia in Validating "Institutional Racism" -- The War on Drugs and Its Escalation -- Factors Contributing to the Militarization of the Police Part IV: Twenty-First-Century Concerns -- Understanding Group Dynamics, Biases, Prejudices, and Discrimination -- Assessing Law Enforcement Personnel -- Politics and Policing -- Recommendations for American Law Enforcement Postscript: An Ethno-Methodological Note
ER  -