ISBN:
9781349246472
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XXXI, 248 p)
Edition:
Second Edition
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Parallel Title:
Printed edition
Keywords:
Political science
;
Great Britain Politics and government
;
Public policy
;
Great Britain—Politics and government.
Abstract:
Are police forces agents of the state or of society? How do different police forces maintain order? How does the nature of a country's political system affect the state's reaction to disorder? This study identifies trends in public-order policing across a broad sample of seven countries: Britain, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, the United States of America, Israel, South Africa and China. It explains why the handling of disorder has become a controversial and topical issue in different parts of the world. Each chapter provides a range of data on the size, make-up and cost of the police and follows a common format in analysing the place of the police at the junction of state-society relations
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-349-24647-2
URL:
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