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Cops and Bobbies: Police Authority in New York and London, 1830-1870.
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This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1977-09-01. It has received 109 citations till now.read more
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Community and Problem-Oriented Policing
TL;DR: In this paper, two archetypes of community policing can be identified, each rooted in a different neighborhood theory of crime: broken windows theory and social disorganization theory, and the weight of the empirical evidence is that community and problem-oriented policing can reduce crime and disorder.
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A Poor Man's System of Justice: the London Police Courts in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
TL;DR: The stipendiary magistracy was further reformed in police offices in the 1820s and 1830s, the same decades which saw the organization of the metropolitan police as discussed by the authors.
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Urban Police and Crime in Nineteenth-Century America
TL;DR: The history of police and crime has been studied extensively over the past half-generation as mentioned in this paper, and the resulting scholarship has grown not only in amount but in "sophistication," as sociologists and political scientists have contributed not only their work but often their methods and approaches.
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Police handgun qualification: practical measure or aimless activity?
Gregory B. Morrison,Bryan Vila +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined police field marksmanship in armed confrontations, within the context of firearms training developments, the nature of and role played by "qualification", and the basis for threshold scores.
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Community and Problem-Oriented Policing
TL;DR: In this paper, two archetypes of community policing can be identified, each rooted in a different neighborhood theory of crime: broken windows theory and social disorganization theory, and the weight of the empirical evidence is that community and problem-oriented policing can reduce crime and disorder.
Journal ArticleDOI
A Poor Man's System of Justice: the London Police Courts in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
TL;DR: The stipendiary magistracy was further reformed in police offices in the 1820s and 1830s, the same decades which saw the organization of the metropolitan police as discussed by the authors.
Journal ArticleDOI
Urban Police and Crime in Nineteenth-Century America
TL;DR: The history of police and crime has been studied extensively over the past half-generation as mentioned in this paper, and the resulting scholarship has grown not only in amount but in "sophistication," as sociologists and political scientists have contributed not only their work but often their methods and approaches.
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Police handgun qualification: practical measure or aimless activity?
Gregory B. Morrison,Bryan Vila +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined police field marksmanship in armed confrontations, within the context of firearms training developments, the nature of and role played by "qualification", and the basis for threshold scores.