POLICE AND POLICED IN THE U.S. 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES

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(Slashed with HIST 82420 ) This course traces (backwards, beginning with the most recent material) the historical processes through which policing took on its special character in this country beginning with slave patrols and the emergence of professional policing just before the Civil War. To trace how police transformed their work through 2001, this course explores public opinion; popular culture; technological and bureaucratic changes; relationships between state and non-state violence; and police working conditions, training and self-understandings.