Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Policing Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Setting the Parameters
2. Policing After Partition: Constructing the Security Apparatus
3. Policing Under Stormont
4. The Impact of Civil Rights on Policing: Collapse and Failed Reform
5. Criminalisation and Normalisation: The Counter-Insurgency Solution
6. Legitimacy, Counter-Insurgency and Policing: The Legacy of the 1970s
7. Shooting to Kill?
8. Collusion and Death Squads
9. Symbolism, Surveys and Police Legitimacy
10. Epilogue: The Patten Report on the RUC
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Graham Ellison is a Reader in the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of The Crowned Harp (Pluto Press, 2000) and The State of the Police State (Taylor and Francis, 2015).



Jim Smyth is an expert on policing in Northern Ireland. He is the author of The Crowned Harp (Pluto Press, 2000).

Reviews

'An exceptionally well written and broad study of policing and public order, particularly from the 'Troubles' in the late 1960s to the present'
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