CHAPTER I. THE ORIGINS OF THE OFFICE

• Medieval Beginnings
• Development of the Word Sheriff
• Abuses

CHAPTER II. EARLY ENGLISH SHERIFFS

• Norman Sheriffs
• Reform Influences on the Office
• Issues of Crime
• Beginning of the Penitentiary Movement
• Decline of the English Version

CHAPTER III. COMING TO AMERICA

• Sheriffs in the Chesapeake Colonies
• Sheriffs in other Colonies
• Posse Comitatus

CHAPTER IV. SHERIFFS MOVE WESTWARD

• The Move West
• The Gun Culture
• Sin, Alcohol, and Vice
• Other issues of Crime
• Sheriffs Help Tame the Wild West

CHAPTER V. FAMOUS SHERIFFS OF THE WILD WEST

• Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp
• Wild Bill Hickok
• Bat Masterson
• Patrick Floyd Garrett
• Theodore Roosevelt, Deputy Sheriff
• William "Bill" Tilghman.

CHAPTER VI. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY SHERIFF

• Politics
• Academic Inferiority
• The Contemporary Sheriff
• Demographics of Sheriffs Department Officers
• Equipment
• Jails
• Courts

CHAPTER VII. THE FUTURE

• The Prospects
• Professionalism
• Corrections

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