Policing a Class Society is an in-depth critical analysis of how ruling elites use the police institution in order to control communities. It is an urgent history of the creation of the police in the United States, focusing on the recently expanded cities of the industrial heartland. The book also provides a critical analysis of how ruling elites control communities. 'Policing a Class Society is a significant contribution to the literature on criminal justice history.' - Alexander W. Pisciotta, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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About the Author
Sidney 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 the Donner Prize as the best book on Canadian public policy published in 1998. 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.


Book Information
ISBN 9781608468546
Author Sidney L. Harring
Format Paperback
Page Count 316
Imprint Haymarket Books
Publisher Haymarket Books