Policing Northern Ireland

ISBN-13: 9781843920724 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 256 str.

Dublin) Aogan (University College Mulcahy

Opis

An authoritative account of the role of the police in the conflict in Northern Ireland.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction and Context  1. Introduction: the 'Policing Question' in Northern Ireland  2. The police legitimation process: reform, representation, response  Part 2: Policing the Conflict  3. Rehabilitation and normalisation: reform and professionalisation of the RUC  4. Policing history: the organised memory of the RUC  5. Simultaneous surfeit and dearth: oppositional discourses on the RUC  Part 3: Policing the Peace  6. Police reform as peace dividend: debating the future of the RUC  7. Visions of normality: peace and the reconstruction of policing in Northern Ireland  8. Living memory: past and present in police reform debates  Part 4: Police Reform and Political Transition  9. A new beginning? The Patten Report on Policing in Northern Ireland  10. A new force? The Police Service of Northern Ireland  Part 5: Conclusions  Conclusions: policing, legitimacy and social conflict

O autorze

Aogán Mulcay is Senior Lecturer in the School of Sociology, University College Dublin. His research interests span policing and social change, police reform, crime and social control, law and society, youth and marginalisation, political violence and conflict resolution.