240 Pages
by
Willan
240 Pages
by
Willan
240 Pages
by
Willan
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This book provides an account and analysis of policing in Northern Ireland, providing an account and analysis of the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) from the start of 'the troubles' in the 1960s to the early 1990s, through the uneasy peace that followed the 1994 paramilitary ceasefires (1994-1998), and then its transformation into the Police Service of Northern Ireland following the 1999 Patten... Read more
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
Biography
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.
