This volume of Opinions Throughout History takes a look at the history and philosophy of policing in America from the vigilante slave catchers of the American S

America’s first known system of law enforcement was established more than 350 years ago. Today law enforcement faces issues such as racial discrimination, use

“Not since Angela Davis’s 2003 book, Are Prisons Obsolete?, has a scholar so persuasively challenged our conventional understanding of the criminal legal sy

A Smithsonian Best History Book of the Year Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize Winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award Winner of the Order of the Coif Award

This groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. Newly added material brings the story through 2020,