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The prohibition era and policing : a legacy of misregulation
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- Creator
- Wesley M. Oliver
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2018]
- Physical Details
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- x, 265 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780826521873, 0826521894, 9780826521880, 0826521878, 0826521886, 9780826521897
- OCLC
- ocn973481580, ocn973199848
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- From petty officers to powerful police -- Mid-nineteenth century state prohibition laws introduce limits on progressive era officers -- Acceptance of the exclusionary rule -- Redefining the evil of tortured confessions -- An awakened hatred of wiretapping -- Regulating searches in an era of police harassment and brutality -- Suspects permitted to consent to coercive and deceptive interrogation practices -- Retreat from rules designed to deter misconduct -- Limited progress toward accuracy and preventing brutality