Concept information
Preferred term
professionalization of police
Definition(s)
- The development of professional standards for American policing, as well as the advancement of the concept of policing as a profession, developed during the early decades of the 20th century in reaction to various problems and challenges encountered by early municipal-level police agencies during that time. Police professionalism remains an evolving, and to a certain extent subjective, concept. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Professionalization of Police]
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-DR8SRBCP-X
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