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- catalog abstract ""Whether they appear in mystery novels or headline news stories, on prime-time TV or the silver screen, few figures have maintained such an extraordinary hold on the American cultural imagination as modern police officers. Why are we so fascinated with the police and their social and political power? What relation do these pervasive media representations bear to the actual history of modern policing?"--Cover.".
- catalog contributor b11540816.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Whether they appear in mystery novels or headline news stories, on prime-time TV or the silver screen, few figures have maintained such an extraordinary hold on the American cultural imagination as modern police officers. Why are we so fascinated with the police and their social and political power? What relation do these pervasive media representations bear to the actual history of modern policing?"--Cover.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction. Thin blue lines : police power and cultural storytelling -- 1. "The machinery of a finished society" : Stephen Crane, Theodore Roosevelt, and the police -- 2." ... and the human cop" : professionalism and the procedural at midcentury -- 3. Blue knights and brown jackets : beat, badge, and "civility" in the 1960s -- 4. Hardcovering "true" crime : cop shops and crime scenes in the 1980s -- 5. Framing the shooter : the Globe, the police, and the streets -- Epilogue. Police blues.".
- catalog extent "xii, 281 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226901327 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0226901335 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "363.2/0973 21".
- catalog subject "HV8138 .W627 2000".
- catalog subject "Police United States History.".
- catalog subject "Police in popular culture United States History.".
- catalog subject "Police power United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction. Thin blue lines : police power and cultural storytelling -- 1. "The machinery of a finished society" : Stephen Crane, Theodore Roosevelt, and the police -- 2." ... and the human cop" : professionalism and the procedural at midcentury -- 3. Blue knights and brown jackets : beat, badge, and "civility" in the 1960s -- 4. Hardcovering "true" crime : cop shops and crime scenes in the 1980s -- 5. Framing the shooter : the Globe, the police, and the streets -- Epilogue. Police blues.".
- catalog title "Cop knowledge : police power and cultural narrative in twentieth-century America / Christopher P. Wilson.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".