Street justice : a history of police violence in New York City /

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Author / Creator:Johnson, Marilynn S.
Imprint:Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2003.
Description:365 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5041238
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ISBN:0807050229 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-345) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. "The Clubbers and the Clubbed": Police Violence in the Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter 2. Riots and the Racialization of Police Brutality, 1900-1911
  • Chapter 3. Brutality and Reform in the Progressive Era
  • Chapter 4. Prohibition, the War on Crime, and the Fight against the Third Degree
  • Chapter 5. Police, Labor, and Radicals in the Great Depression
  • Chapter 6. The Resurgence of Race
  • Chapter 7. Storming the Barricades: The 1960s
  • Chapter 8. Will the Cycle Be Unbroken?
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index