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...describes trends in state police development and argues that the creation of these agencies was a significant part of police reform across the country.

Table of Contents

Introduction What Do We Know About the State Police? State Police Development, 1835-1941 State Police in Historical Context State Police Development in Illinois The State Police Reform Movement in Illinois Creating the State Police in Colorado Analysis of the State Police Reform Movement State Police Research Bibliography Index

About the Author

H. KENNETH BECHTEL is Associate Professsor in the Department of Sociology at Wake Forest University. He is coeditor of a work on Blacks in American Science, and has contributed in many ways to the literature of sociology.