The Police, Public Order and the State
Policing in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, the USA, Israel, South Africa and China
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Individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often grow up with negative messages surrounding their abilities and may experience adverse outcomes throughout their lives. Despite this, by ad...
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Introduction
The maintenance of internal order is at once both a topical and an enduring issue. The increasing frequency of disorder, the manner in which it is expressed and the responses of governments to more or less vio...
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Northern Ireland
Since the creation of Northern Ireland as a separate political entity under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, a substantial minority of the population of Northern Ireland has continued to reject the legitima...
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The United States of America
The circumstances surrounding the birth of the US as an independent state at the end of the eighteenth century have left an indelible imprint on the relations between state and society ever since. In the first...
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South Africa
The South African state was founded in 1910. Since 1948 it has been under the control of the Afrikaans dominated National Party, which has pursued the policy of racial segregation and inequality we know as ‘ap...
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Conclusion
The preceding chapters illustrate both the differences and similarities that exist among a diverse range of states in the realm of public order policing. Conflict is, of course, an endemic feature of all socie...
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Great Britain
Public order policing in Britain has rapidly developed as a key issue on the contemporary political agenda. In the process, a number of seemingly inviolable features of both the police as an institution and po...
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The Republic of Ireland
Ireland has been a sovereign state for less than 70 years. Much of its constitutional development has focused on the assertion of this sovereignty in the face of continuing economic and cultural influences ema...
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Israel
The external threat to Israel’s existence as a state has been the dominant motif of Israeli life since the country’s proclamation of independence on 14 May 1948. There have been five major wars with the countr...
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People’s Republic of China
Although there is a national police force in the People’s Republic of China, known as the Public Security Agency, the country has special features which make an analysis of policing more difficult than in earl...
