Patterns of Provocation
Police and Public Disorder
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2000
208 pages
978-1-78920-371-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index
ISBN-13
978-1-78920-371-4 (9781789203714)
DOI
10.3167/9781571812278
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Persons
Richard Bessel is Professor of Twentieth-Century History at the University of York. His publications include Political Violence and the Rise of Nazism and Germany after the First World War.
Content
Introduction: Patterns of Provocation
R. Bessel and C. Emsley
Chapter 1. The Case of Berlin, 1929
P. Leflmann-Faust
Chapter 2. The Police and the Clichy Massacre, 1937
S. Kitson
Chapter 3. "Silitoe's Cossacks": Policing the Glasgow Gangs in the 1930s
A. Davies
Chapter 4. The "People's Police" and the Miners of Saalfeld, August 1951
R. Bessel
Chapter 5. The Harlem Riots 1964
M. Flamm
Chapter 6. Policing Pit Closures, 1984-1992
D. Waddington and C. Critcher
Chapter 7. The Police Role in Riots: Discourse or Reality
D. Wisler and M. Tackenberg
Notes on contributors
Bibliography
Index
R. Bessel and C. Emsley
Chapter 1. The Case of Berlin, 1929
P. Leflmann-Faust
Chapter 2. The Police and the Clichy Massacre, 1937
S. Kitson
Chapter 3. "Silitoe's Cossacks": Policing the Glasgow Gangs in the 1930s
A. Davies
Chapter 4. The "People's Police" and the Miners of Saalfeld, August 1951
R. Bessel
Chapter 5. The Harlem Riots 1964
M. Flamm
Chapter 6. Policing Pit Closures, 1984-1992
D. Waddington and C. Critcher
Chapter 7. The Police Role in Riots: Discourse or Reality
D. Wisler and M. Tackenberg
Notes on contributors
Bibliography
Index
