Lexington Books
Pages: 172
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Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7391-8904-7 • Hardback • May 2015 • $122.00 • (£94.00)
978-1-4985-1593-1 • Paperback • November 2016 • $54.99 • (£42.00)
978-0-7391-8905-4 • eBook • May 2015 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
Jonathon A. Cooper is assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he also directs the Criminology Advising Center.
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
Cooper argues that certain seminal events in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s had a profound and lasting effect on the organization and behavior of police forces in the US. The Supreme Court’s rulings on due process challenged police procedures; race riots highlighted long-standing and widespread antagonisms between the police and minorities; and rising crime rates, lawsuits, and social science research revealed police inefficacy and corruption. Cooper provides a lucid synthesis of existing scholarship detailing these important developments. . . .Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above.
— Choice Reviews
Cooper tells the story of American policing, but the book is much more than a historical review of the police. It is a powerful, insightful analysis that demonstrates the interconnectedness of past, present and future in a way that we have seldom seen. The book is a compelling read for police historians, police futurists, and everyone in between.
— Michael White, Arizona State University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Dr. Cooper has written a well-researched and authoritative account of modern policing’s linkages to three important decades—the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. His book is a timely and welcome addition to the annals of law enforcement history.
— John L. Worrall, professor of criminology, University of Texas at Dallas
This is a timely manuscript in the wake of recent events precipitated in Ferguson, Missouri and New York City, New York by the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. It provides a contemporary and thoughtful discussion on the historical relationship between the police and public, how far the police have come, and how far they still have to go.
— Charles Katz, Arizona State University