Bloody Bay : grassroots policing in nineteenth-century San Francisco /

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"Bloody Bay follows the history of policing in nineteenth-century San Francisco, exploring the city's culture of popular justice, its multi-ethnic environment, and how the unique relationships formed between informal and formal policing created a more progressive policing environment than...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Raspa, Darren A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Criminal justice, Administration of > Citizen participation > History > 19th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of > California > San Francisco > History > 19th century.
Police > California > San Francisco > History > 19th century.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Criminal justice, Administration of
Criminal justice, Administration of > Citizen participation
Police
Social conditions
San Francisco (Calif.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
California > San Francisco
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Of Heroes and Hounds
  • 2. "Adiós, Caballeros"
  • 3. English Jim and the Rise of Grassroots Policeways, 1851
  • 4. Vigilant City
  • Interlude
  • 5. Pick-Handles on the Plaza, July 1877
  • 6. King of Chinatown
  • 7. Tiger Eyes, the Jewel of the Pacific, and Reorienting the Policing Model.

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