Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The historical development of the police
- 2 Arrest trends, 1860 – 1920
- 3 Tramps and children: the decline of police welfare
- 4 A narrowing of function
- Conclusion
- Appendixes
- A Police uniform adoption dates
- B Arrest data sources
- C Multiple regression tables and correlation matrices
- D Lost children, rank order correlations, individual city data, and a comparison of New York police/NYSPCC data
- E Synopsis of crime rates from previous studies
- F Lagged police correlated with criminal arrests, by city
- Notes
- Index
D - Lost children, rank order correlations, individual city data, and a comparison of New York police/NYSPCC data
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The historical development of the police
- 2 Arrest trends, 1860 – 1920
- 3 Tramps and children: the decline of police welfare
- 4 A narrowing of function
- Conclusion
- Appendixes
- A Police uniform adoption dates
- B Arrest data sources
- C Multiple regression tables and correlation matrices
- D Lost children, rank order correlations, individual city data, and a comparison of New York police/NYSPCC data
- E Synopsis of crime rates from previous studies
- F Lagged police correlated with criminal arrests, by city
- Notes
- Index
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- Police in Urban America, 1860–1920 , pp. 176 - 179Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1981