Patterns of Provocation: Police and Public DisorderRichard Bessel, Clive Emsley Berghahn Books, 2000 - 153 pages 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. |
Table des matières
P A J Waddington The Strong Arm of the Law p 137 | 6 |
The Police and the Clichy Massacre March 1937 | 29 |
Jefferson Beyond Paramilitarism p | 47 |
Jefferson Beyond Paramilitarism p | 50 |
Jefferson Pondering Paramilitarism p 379 | 52 |
R Chatterton The Supervision of Patrol Work under the Fixed Points Sys tem in S Holdaway ed The British Police London 1979 | 53 |
P A J Waddington Coercion and Accommodation p 379 | 57 |
Riots and Violent Disturbances in Thirteen Areas of Britain 1991 York 1997 | 58 |
Alderson A Fair Cop p 13 | 60 |
The Peoples Police and the Miners of Saalfeld | 63 |
Policing Pit Closures 19841992 | 99 |
Image of Reality? | 121 |
Notes on Further Reading | 143 |