The crowned harp : policing Northern Ireland

The crowned harp : policing Northern Ireland / Graham Ellison and Jim Smyth.

Annotation The Crowned Harp provides a detailed analysis of policing in Northern Ireland. Tracing its history from 1922, Ellison and Smyth portray the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) as an organisation burdened by its past as a colonial police force. They analyse its perceived close relationship wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ellison, Graham
Other Authors: Smyth, Jim (Professor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.
Series:Contemporary Irish studies.
Subjects:
Royal Ulster Constabulary.
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Police > Northern Ireland.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Law Enforcement.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Peace.
Police
Politik
Geschichte 1922-2000.
Northern Ireland
Nordirland
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Table of Contents:
  • Policing Nineteenth-century Ireland: Setting the Parameters
  • Policing After Partition: Constructing the Security Apparatus
  • Policing under Stormont
  • The Impact of Civil Rights on Policing: Collapse and Failed Reform
  • Criminalisation and Normalisation: The Counter-Insurgency Solution
  • Legitimacy, Counter-Insurgency and Policing: The Legacy of the 1970s
  • Shooting to Kill?
  • Collusion and Death Squads
  • Symbolism, Surveys and Police Legitimacy
  • Epilogue: The Patten Report on the RUC.

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