Factors That Encouraged the Growth and Spread of Private Policing

question 26

Multiple Choice

Factors that encouraged the growth and spread of private policing during the 19th century included:

• A) the lack of police in rural areas
• B) the growth of the labor movement
• C) the lack of public police detectives
• D) all of the above

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