Table of Contents

Tables Abbreviations Map of Northern Ireland Acknowledgments 1. Policing Ethnically Divided Societies Part 1: From Protestant to British Rule 2. Protestant Policing: 1922-1968 3. Reforming the RUC Part 2: Core Problems in Police-Community Relations 4. Police Legitimacy and Professionalism 5. Dual Policing: Fighting Crime and Insurgency 6. Police Accountability Part 3: Improving Police-Community Relations 7. Community Policing in the Shadows 8. Conclusion Endnotes Appendix: Community Interviewees Index

About the Author

Ronald Weitzer is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Washington University.

Reviews

"The author is working in an important area: the relationships among politics, the state, and policing, especially when explicit state interests and politics are involved. He comments very accurately on the shabby and ill-conceived ideology of community policing, and he brings data to bear in an illuminating fashion on the meaning of 'community' and the practices of 'community policing.'" - Peter K. Manning, Michigan State University