Police Departments, Arrests, and Crime in the U.S., 1860-1920
Author : Eric H. Monkkonen
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Page : pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Crime
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Author : Eric H. Monkkonen
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Page : pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Crime
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 1984
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Author : Eric H. Monkkonen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2004-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521531252
This book examines the rapid spread of uniformed police forces throughout late nineteenth-century urban America. It suggests that, initially, the new kind of police in industrial cities served primarily as agents of class control, dispensing and administering welfare services as an unintentioned consequence of their uniformed presence on the streets.
Author : Barry Latzer
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807174831
The Roots of Violent Crime in America is criminologist Barry Latzer’s comprehensive analysis of crimes of violence—including murder, assault, and rape—in the United States from the 1880s through the 1930s. Combining the theoretical perspectives and methodological rigor of criminology with a synthesis of historical scholarship as well as original research and analysis, Latzer challenges conventional thinking about violent crime of this era. While scholars have traditionally cast American cities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as dreadful places, Latzer suggests that despite overcrowding and poverty, U.S. cities enjoyed low rates of violent crime, especially when compared to rural areas. The rural South and the thinly populated West both suffered much higher levels of brutal crime than the metropolises of the East and Midwest. Latzer deemphasizes racism and bigotry as causes of violence during this period, noting that while many social groups confronted significant levels of discrimination and abuse, only some engaged in high levels of violent crime. Cultural predispositions and subcultures of violence, he posits, led some groups to participate more frequently in violent activity than others. He also argues that the prohibition on alcohol in the 1920s did not drive up rates of violent crime. Though the bootlegger wars contributed considerably to the murder rate in some of America’s largest municipalities, Prohibition also eliminated saloons, which served as hubs of vice, corruption, and lawlessness. The Roots of Violent Crime in America stands as a sweeping reevaluation of the causes of crimes of violence in the United States between the Gilded Age and World War II, compelling readers to rethink enduring assumptions on this contentious topic.
Author : Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Crime
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Author : National Institute of Justice (U.S.)
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Page : 394 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
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Author : Clayton J. Mosher
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,76 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1452223947
Filled with real world examples derived from media reports on crime trends and other sources, this fully updated Second Edition analyzes the specific errors that can occur in the three most common methods used to report crime—official crime data, self report, and victimization studies. For each method, the authors examine strengths and weaknesses, the fundamental issues surrounding accuracy, and the method's application to theoretical and policy research. Throughout the book, the authors demonstrate the factors that underlie crime data and illustrate the fundamental links between theory, policy, and data measurement.
Author : Randolph Roth
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674054547
In American Homicide, Randolph Roth charts changes in the character and incidence of homicide in the U.S. from colonial times to the present. Roth argues that the United States is distinctive in its level of violence among unrelated adults—friends, acquaintances, and strangers. America was extraordinarily homicidal in the mid-seventeenth century, but it became relatively non-homicidal by the mid-eighteenth century, even in the slave South; and by the early nineteenth century, rates in the North and the mountain South were extremely low. But the homicide rate rose substantially among unrelated adults in the slave South after the American Revolution; and it skyrocketed across the United States from the late 1840s through the mid-1870s, while rates in most other Western nations held steady or fell. That surge—and all subsequent increases in the homicide rate—correlated closely with four distinct phenomena: political instability; a loss of government legitimacy; a loss of fellow-feeling among members of society caused by racial, religious, or political antagonism; and a loss of faith in the social hierarchy. Those four factors, Roth argues, best explain why homicide rates have gone up and down in the United States and in other Western nations over the past four centuries, and why the United States is today the most homicidal affluent nation.
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Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
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Author : Kerry Segrave
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1476664838
Police violence is not a new phenomenon. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, police officers in America assaulted or killed many ordinary citizens, often during improper detainments or arrests where no threat existed or no crime had been committed. Based on hundreds of newspaper accounts from 1869 through 1920, this history provides a chronological listing of interactions between police and unarmed citizens in which the citizens--some of them minors--were assaulted or killed. Police who committed such acts often lied to protect themselves, assisted by fellow officers and encouraging the media to demonize the victims. The author provides information on the prosecution and punishment of officers where available.