Policing A Class Society: The Experience of American Cities, 1865-1915
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (798 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1608468542 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 316 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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During the course of his career, he has received three Fellowships in Legal History from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Fulbright Fellowship, and was a Rockefeller Fellow at the McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian.. About the AuthorSidney L. Harring, Professor Emeritus at CUNY School of Law, the author of more than 80 articles, chapters, and book reviews on such subjects as American and British colonial history, Native American law, indigenous rights, and criminal law, he has written four books, the third of which, White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth Century Canadian Jurisprudence, was a finalist for
Harring is a professor emeritus at CUNY School of Law. The book also provides a critical analysis of how ruling elites control communities.Sidney L. “Policing a Class Society is a significant contribution to the literature on criminal justice history.”Alexander W. Pisciotta, Journal of Criminal Law and CriminologyAn urgent history of the creation of the police in the United States, focusing on the recently expanded cities of the industrial heartland. He is the author of four books.
Harring, Professor Emeritus at CUNY School of Law, the author of more than 80 articles, chapters, and book reviews on such subjects as American and British colonial history, Native American law, indigenous rights, and criminal law, he has written four books, the third of which, White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth Century Canadian Jurisprudence, was a finalist for the Donner Prize as the best book on Canad