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Policing the Wild North-West - A Sociological Study of the Provincial Police in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905-32 (Paperback, New)
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Policing the Wild North-West - A Sociological Study of the Provincial Police in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905-32 (Paperback, New)
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In Policing the Wild North-West: A Sociological Study of the
Provincial Police in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905-32, the first
comprehensive social history of provincial police in western Canada
between 1905 and 1932, Zhiqiu Lin investigates the complex
relationship between the role of policing, the political sphere,
and social progress. This book attempts to analyze the effects on
provincial police in Alberta and Saskatchewan of various social
phenomena ranging from political radicals and vagrants to
prohibition bootleggers and black market profiteers. These factors
placed enormous demands on the development of policing and had a
significant impact on three specific and interrelated areas: first,
the professionalization of police organizations within society, as
evidenced by changes in policing technology, varying political
agendas, and, perhaps most importantly, within the police
organizations themselves; second, the shifting of focus away from
the "dangerous classes" and social agitators towards investigative
procedures required for solving serious crime; and finally, the
impact of policing on the rates of crime as influenced by the role
of police officers as agents of social change and the value of
social service in strengthening community and reducing the
motivation towards criminal activity. The book concludes with an
examination of the transition between federal and provincial
responsibilities for policing in the two provinces, the reasons for
the disbandment of the provincial police forces, and the broader
issues of police development and the rationalization of policing in
modern society.
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