The crowned harp: policing Northern Ireland

Introduction 1. Policing Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Setting the Parameters 2. Policing After Partition: Constructing the Security Apparatus 3. Policing Under Stormont 4. The Impact of Civil Rights on Policing: Collapse and Failed Reform 5. Criminalisation and Normalisation: The Counter-Insurgency Solution 6. Legitimacy, Counter-Insurgency and Policing: The Legacy of the 1970s 7. Shooting to Kill? 8. Collusion and Death Squads 9. Symbolism, Surveys and Police Legitimacy 10. Epilogue: The Patten Report on the RUC Notes Bibliography Index