A01=Graham Ellison
A01=Jim Smyth
Author_Graham Ellison
Author_Jim Smyth
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Category=JPH
Category=NHT
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Product details
- ISBN 9780745313931
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 20 May 2000
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book is a detailed analysis of policing in Northern Ireland. Tracing its history from 1922, Ellison and Smyth portray the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) as an organisation burdened by its past as a colonial police force.
They analyse its perceived close relationship with unionism and why, for many nationalists, the RUC embodied the problem of the legitimacy of Northern Ireland, arguing that decisions made on the organisation, composition and ideology of policing in the early years of the state had consequences which went beyond the everyday practice of policing.
Examining the reorganisations of the RUC in the 1970s and 1980s, Ellison and Smyth focus on the various structural, legal and ideological components, the professionalisation of the force and the development of a coherent, if contradictory, ideology.
They analyse its perceived close relationship with unionism and why, for many nationalists, the RUC embodied the problem of the legitimacy of Northern Ireland, arguing that decisions made on the organisation, composition and ideology of policing in the early years of the state had consequences which went beyond the everyday practice of policing.
Examining the reorganisations of the RUC in the 1970s and 1980s, Ellison and Smyth focus on the various structural, legal and ideological components, the professionalisation of the force and the development of a coherent, if contradictory, ideology.
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).
