Cop Knowledge
Subtitle: Police Power and Cultural Narrative in Twentieth-Century America
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780226901329
Subjects: Criminal investigation & detection; Cultural studies; Police & security services; 20th century; Police Science; Popular Culture; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Literature: Classics; USA; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; Social History; Political Science / Law Enforcement; Popular Culture - General; History; Police; Police in popular culture; Police power; United States
First sentence: This is a book about police power: those who exercise it, those who would reform it, and those in the popular arts who are drawn to its political dramas, its cultural contradictions, and its fraternal mysteries.