CYRIL D. ROBINSON, Professor Emeritus, Center for the Study of Crime, Delinquency, and Corrections at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, has long specialized in criminal law and police-community relations. His most recent book is Legal Rights, Duties and Liabilities of Criminal Justice Personnel: History and Analysis (1992).RICHARD SCAGLION is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. He specializes in tribal societies. He is the editor of Customary Law and Legal Development in Papua, New Guinea (Journal of Anthropology, volume 6, nos. 1 and 2, 1987) and author of numerous articles on travel societies, customary law, and police-community relations.J. MICHAEL OLIVERO is Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Law and Justice at Central Washington University in Ellensburg. His most recent book is Honor, Violence, and Upward Mobility: Chicago Gangs, 1970s-1980s (1992).

• Introduction The Police Function in Kinship-based Societies The Police in State Societies Ethnographic Examples Cross-Cultural Tests Implications for Modern Police and Police-Community Relations What Can Be Done References Index

CYRIL D. ROBINSON, Professor Emeritus, Center for the Study of Crime, Delinquency, and Corrections at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, has long specialized in criminal law and police-community relations. His most recent book is Legal Rights, Duties and Liabilities of Criminal Justice Personnel: History and Analysis (1992).RICHARD SCAGLION is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. He specializes in tribal societies. He is the editor of Customary Law and Legal Development in Papua, New Guinea (Journal of Anthropology, volume 6, nos. 1 and 2, 1987) and author of numerous articles on travel societies, customary law, and police-community relations.J. MICHAEL OLIVERO is Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Law and Justice at Central Washington University in Ellensburg. His most recent book is Honor, Violence, and Upward Mobility: Chicago Gangs, 1970s-1980s (1992).

• Introduction The Police Function in Kinship-based Societies The Police in State Societies Ethnographic Examples Cross-Cultural Tests Implications for Modern Police and Police-Community Relations What Can Be Done References Index