Police, Public Order and the State
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 7. May 1996
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-333-65487-3 (ISBN)
Description
Are police forces agents of the state or of society? How do different police forces maintain order? How does the nature of a country's political system affect the state's reaction to disorder? This study identifies trends in public-order policing across a broad sample of seven countries: Britain, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, the United States of America, Israel, South Africa and China. It explains why the handling of disorder has become a controversial and topical issue in different parts of the world. Each chapter provides a range of data on the size, make-up and cost of the police and follows a common format in analysing the place of the police at the junction of state-society relations.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
tables, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 139 mm
Weight
389 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-65487-3 (9780333654873)
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John D. Brewer
The Police, Public Order and the State
Policing in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, the USA, Israel, South Africa and China
Book
05/1996
2nd Edition
Palgrave Macmillan
€53.49
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Persons
Author
Her Majesty's Inspector of Education, Wales
Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland
Senior Lecturer in Politics, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
Content
List of Tables - Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Great Britain - Northern Ireland - The Republic of Ireland - The United States of America - Israel - South Africa - People's Republic of China - Conclusion - Select Bibliography - Index