Policing Northern Ireland : conflict, legitimacy and reform

Content: Front cover
 Copyright
 Contents
 Acknowledgements
 List of tables
 List of acronyms
 Part I: Introduction
 1. The context of policing and legitimacy in Northern Ireland
 Part II: Policing the conflict
 2. Crisis, rehabilitation and normalization: reform and professionalization of the RUC
 3. Policing history: the organizational memory of the RUC
 4. Simultaneous surfeit and defecit: security policing, crime prevention and \'alternative justice\'
 Part III: Policing the peace
 5. Police reform as peace dividend: the debate over the future of the RUC. 6. Visions of normality: peace and the reconstruction of policing7. Resistance narratives: from lollipop protests to Drumcree
 Part IV: Police reform and conflict resolution
 8. \'A New Beginning?\' The Patten Report on policing in Northern Ireland
 9. Implementing the reform programme: the new institutional framework of policing
 10. Conclusion: conflict, ligitimacy and reform
 References
 Index
 Back cover.