Mitchel P Roth, Tom Kennedy

Houston Blue

The Story of the Houston Police Department

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers the first comprehensive history of one of the US's largest police forces, the Houston Police Department. Through extensive archival research and more than one hundred interviews with prominent Houston police figures, politicians, news reporters, attorneys, and others, authors Mitchel P. Roth and Tom Kennedy chronicle the development of policing in the Bayou City from its days as a grimy trading post in the 1830s to its current status as the nation's fourth largest city.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of North Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 408mm x 262mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1056g
• ISBN-13: 9781574414721
• ISBN-10: 1574414720
• Artikelnr.: 36129799

Autorenporträt

MITCHEL P. ROTH received the Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1993 and is currently professor of criminal justice at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. He has written extensively about the history of crime and punishment and was selected by the Texas Department of Public Safety to write its history and update it three times over the past fifteen years. His books include Crime and Punishment: A History of the Criminal Justice System, Historical Dictionary of Law Enforcement, and The Encyclopedia of War Journalism. TOM KENNEDY spent twenty-five years with the late Houston Post as a columnist and member of the Editorial Board. His columns focused on politics, police, and criminal justice. He authored From Waco to Wall Street, the biography of SYSCO founder John Baugh. A Baylor University journalism graduate, he resides in Houston with his wife Glenda.