Policing Northern Ireland

Author : Aogan Mulcahy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134019955
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policing Northern Ireland written by Aogan Mulcahy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an account and analysis of policing in Northern Ireland, following the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) from the start of 'the troubles' in the 1960s up to 1999. It focuses on three key aspects of the police legitimation process: reform measures which are implemented to redress a legitimacy crisis; representational strategies which are invoked to offer positive images of policing; and public responses to these various strategies. The book also makes a powerful contribution to wider current debates about police legitimacy, police-community relations, community resistance, and conflict resolution.

Author : Mary Gethins
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719087431
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catholic Police Officers in Northern Ireland written by Mary Gethins and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting book, newly available in paperback, aims to establish the historical and cultural reasons why there was only a participation rate of 7-8% by the Catholic population in policing Northern Ireland when the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) came into being in 2001, even though Catholics constituted 46% of the total population. It also aims to ascertain whether or not implementation of the Patten Commission's recommendation to recruit to the PSNI on a 50:50 basis between Catholics and non-Catholics has resulted in greater representation and what the political and cultural obstacles might be in transforming policing from meeting colonial model criteria to those of the liberal model advocated by Patten. In doing this, author Mary Gethins uses a wealth of historical data to show that there has for a long time been a problematic relationship between the native Irish Catholic population and the police, and the reasons for Catholic under-representation in the police force can be largely put down to this legacy. A survey of Catholic police officers focusing on family history, reasons for joining the police and sacrifices perceived to have been made in joining a largely Protestant organisation provide a strong empirical evidence base from which Gethins draws illuminating lessons. The work is informed by sociological theory to show that Catholic police officers are atypical of the Catholic population at large in Northern Ireland, and best explained by the concept of fragmented identity.

Author : Ronald John Weitzer
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791422472
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policing Under Fire written by Ronald John Weitzer and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the conditions present in an ethnically divided society that affect police-community relations.

Author : Neil Southern
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331975999X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policing and Combating Terrorism in Northern Ireland written by Neil Southern and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the challenges of combating terrorism from a policing perspective using the example of the Royal Ulster Constabulary GC (RUC) in Northern Ireland. The RUC was in the frontline of counter-terrorism work for thirty years of conflict during which time it also provided a normal policing service to the public. However, combating a protracted and vicious terrorist campaign exacted a heaving price on the force. Importantly, the book addresses a seriously under-researched theme in terrorism studies, namely, the impact of terrorism on members of the security forces. Accordingly, the book examines how officers have been affected by the conflict as terrorists adopted a strategy which targeted them both on and off duty. This resulted in a high percentage of officers being killed whilst off duty - sometimes in the company of their wives and children. The experience of officers' wives is also documented thus highlighting the familial impact of terrorism. Generally speaking, the victims of terrorist attacks have received scant scholarly attention which has resulted in victims' experiences being little understood. This piece of work casts a specific and unique light on the nature of victimhood as it has been experienced by members of this branch of the security forces in Northern Ireland.

Author : John McGarry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policing Northern Ireland written by John McGarry and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police reform, one of the most hotly debated issues in Northern Ireland, is at the heart of the Good Friday Agreement. This timely and dispassionate book examines the status quo and puts forward reasoned proposals to help create representative, impartial, decentralised, demilitarised and democratically accountable policing services - proposals which respect the identities and ideas of unionists, nationalists and others.

Author : Desmond Rea
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 178138150X
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policing in Northern Ireland written by Desmond Rea and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary transformation of policing in Northern Ireland presented through the eyes of the Northern Ireland Policing Board.

Author : Graham Ellison
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745313931
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crowned Harp written by Graham Ellison and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2000-05-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Baghdad Bulletin takes us where mainstream news accounts do not go. Disrupting the easy cliches that dominate US journalism, Enders blows away the media fog of war.' Norman Soloman

Author : Aogan Mulcahy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134020023
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policing Northern Ireland written by Aogan Mulcahy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Report. A major concern is with the reform process, and the way that the RUC has faced and sought to remedy a situation where it faced a chronic legitimacy deficit. Policing Northern Ireland focuses on three key aspects of the police legitimation process: reform measures which are implemented to redress a legitimacy crisis; representational strategies which are invoked to offer positive images of policing; and public responses to these various strategies. Several key questions are asked about the ways in which the RUC has sought to improve its standing amongst nationalists: first, what strategies of reform has the RUC implemented? second, what forms of representation has the RUC employed to promote and portray itself in the positive terms that might secure public support? third, how have nationalists responded to these initiatives? The theoretical framework and analysis developed in the book also highlights general issues relating to the implications of police legitimacy and illegitimacy for social conflict and divisions, and their management and/or resolution, in relation to transitional societies in particular. In doing so it makes a powerful contribution to wider current debates about police legitimacy, police-community relations, community resistance, and conflict resolution.

Author : J. Wright
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230514804
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policing and Conflict in Northern Ireland written by J. Wright and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In societies suffering from acute political and social cleavage, policing agencies are invariably at the heart of the conflict resolution processes. In Northern Ireland, there have been calls for the RUC to be disbanded as well as for it to be retained unchanged. After considering various options and models especially from Spain, South Africa and the Netherlands this book charts a path for reform that takes account of Northern Ireland's political realities and will help build trust and inclusions.

Author : Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland written by Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: