The Role of Police in American Society: A Documentary History

Preface Introduction Night Watchmen, Constables, and Sheriffs: The Role of Early "Police" in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth- Century America Rangers, Marshals, and Municipal Police Forces: The Role of the Police in the Nineteenth Century Police Reform, and Social and Technological Advances in the Early Twentieth Century A Growing Emphasis on Police Training, Professionalism, Efficiency, and Ethics, 1939-1959 Social Change and Conflicting Expectations of the Police Role, 1960-1978 Reexamining and Redefining the Role of the Police, 1979-1989 The Role of the Police in the 1990s Glossary Appendices Selected Bibliography Index