Policing the peace in Northern Ireland by Jon Moran

Policing the peace in Northern Ireland by Jon Moran

This timely and controversial book shows how crime, and the authorities' response to crime, became central to the peace process in Northern Ireland. At times, paramilitary activity threatened to destabilise the peace in Northern Ireland after 1998, but crime was central to maintaining capacity should the groups return to war. Over time, the reduction of crime was central to these groups' own attempts to reform and official judgements as to whether they were genuinely demobilising. The state's response to crime added controversy. Police reform produced the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the new Organised Crime Task Force signalled the importance of crime control, but the Assets Recovery Agency, supposedly the 'magic bullet' for organised crime, misfired. Law enforcement was also deeply affected by the British state's response to paramilitary crime. By 2007, peace was apparently secure and paramilitaries were 'de-criminalising', but this often chaotic process was marked with questions about the British state's adherence to the rule of law. Incorporating first-hand research in the PSNI, the book will be of interest to general readers and scholars of Irish Studies, criminology, and British and comparative politics.

Jon Moran is Reader in Criminal Justice at the School of Legal Studies, University of Wolverhampton

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ISBN 13	9780719074721
ISBN 10	071907472X
Title	Policing the peace in Northern Ireland
Author	Jon Moran
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Manchester University Press
Year published	2008-04-01
Number of pages	256
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