Research Guides: Contemporary Policing 342: Getting Started

Policing in America

The Role of Police in American Society: A Documentary History: Bryan Vila and Cynthia Morris. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1999.; "A collection of 95 primary documents tracing the history and development of police policy and the role of police in American society." Available?

Beyond Community Policing: From Early American Beginnings to the 21st Century: James J. Chriss. New York, Routledge, 2016. Rutgers-restricted Access

Official Directory of State Patrol & Police: Links to official sites for state police departments in the U.S. Sadly, there seem to be a lot of broken links at the moment.

NYPD - Historical and Current Research: Guide from the Lloyd Seeay Library at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice

World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems: George Thomas Kurian. 2nd edition. Detroit, Thomson Gale, 2006. 2 vols. Rutgers-restricted Access

Comparative Policing: Jacques de Maillard. New York, Routledge, 2022.; "This book is a systematic and comparative analysis of police systems in the western world, looking at their structure and how they tackle contemporary social problems." Focus on four major groups: Anglo-American (England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, United States, etc.), Napoleonic (France, Spain, Italy, Portugal), Scandinavian (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden) and continental European (Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland). Rutgers-restricted Access

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