Patterns of Provocation: Police and Public Disorder - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1571812288 ISBN 13: 9781571812285

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Over the past thirty years social scientists and particularly social historians have stressed the need to take popular protest seriously. The corollary of this, the need to take the policing of protest seriously, seems to have been less well acknowledged. The aim of this volume is to redress this situation by probing, in depth, a limited number of incidents of public disorder and focusing particularly on the role of the police. In doing so, this collection will draw out general patterns of police provocation and public responses and suggest general hypotheses. The incidents explored range across Europe and the United States, involve different kinds of political regime, and are drawn from both the interwar and the postwar years. They pose important questions about the effects of riot training and specialist equipment for the police, about the reality and roles of "agitators" and of "rotten apples" amongst the police, and about the role of the media and the courts in fostering certain kinds of undesirable and counterproductive police behavior.

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Clive Emsley is Professor of History at the Open University and Co-Director of the European Centre for the Study of Policing. His publications include Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 and The English Police: A Political and Social History. Since 1995 he has been President of the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1571812288
• ISBN 13: 9781571812285
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
• Herausgeber: Bessel Richard, Emsley Clive
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland