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In recent years, such episodes as the death of Blair Peach, the Miners' Strike, the Scarman Report, and the Ponting and Stalker affairs have raised serious doubts as to whether the "British trick" of maintaining law and order by consensus is still feasible. Beginning with the Swing, Chartist, and Plug Riots, Charles Townshend shows how public order was steadily tightened during the Victorian era and how that process has continued throughout this century, thanks to such legislation as the Official Secrets, Public Order, Defence of the Realm, and Emergency Powers Acts. This is a wide-ranging and readable historical analysis of the fundamental concepts on which the law-and-order debate rests. In addition to exploring the issues and events that have influenced mainland affairs, Townshend also examines the Irish situation between the First Land Act and the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and offers valuable insights into the periodic "crises of order" that seems to be threatening modern Britain.
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About the Author
Charles Townshend is Professor of Modern History at the University of Keele.
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"Townshend's book is quarried from archival, legal, and parliamentary sources and reveals a wide acquaintance with the secondary literature. It is rich in both quotations and insightful, if often complex, argumentation."--American Historical Review
"Erudite throughout, with thorough documentation."--CHOICE
"An interesting and well-written account of the roots of a crisis in relations between the police, the government, and the public. Its application of social history to the history of English policing is illuminating."--Albion
"[A] singular contribution to the history of public order in Britain....[T]his study significantly advances the hitoriography of policing and power and must be reckoned with by all future scholars working in this area."--Journal of Modern History
"[I]mportant and elegantly written book..."--Journal of British Studies
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 019822978X
- ISBN 13 9780198229780
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages274
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