Reading the riot act : the magistracy, the police, and the army in civil disorder
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Reading the riot act : the magistracy, the police, and the army in civil disorder
（New directions in criminology series）
Open University Press, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references ([183]-197) and index
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: pbk ISBN 9780335151844
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An attempt to formulate a new perspective on the development of the State in England by examining its response to severe internal threat over an extended historical period. It considers in detail the vigorously contested relations between agencies of the state involved in the suppression of riot.
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This work develops a new perspective on the development of the State in England by examining its response to severe internal threat over an extended historical period. It considers in detail the vigorously contested relations between agencies of the state (the Magistracy, the Police and the Army) involved in the supression of riot. Based on original research into 10 major incidents of civil disorder from the Gordon Riots of 1780 to the Inner City Disorders of 1981 the book argues that the right to ultimate control of the repressive forces of the state in the crucial area of civil disorder has at various times been appropriated by each of these agencies. The continually changing balance of relations between them has profound implications not only for the structure of the state but also for the administration of criminal justice in general.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Reading the riot act - local state power and social class: commanding with a loud voice
- "by the authority aforesaid" - the state and its agencies". Part 2 The magistrate as state servant: Bentham, Blackstone and the contest over the state magistracy
- the first experiment - the London and Westminster Police Bill 1785
- threats of revolution - the Middlesex Justices Act 1792
- institutional separation in London - Police and Police magistracy
- the new borough magistracy in 1835. Part 3 Two versions of magisterial authority - Bristol and Hyde Park: Bristol 1831
- Hyde Park 1855. Part 4 Provincial magistrates and local power: the growth of judicial authority 1835-1888
- the loss of authority by provincial benches
- the growth of centre-dependency. Part 5 Shifts in the relations of power - Trafalgar Square Featherstone and Tonypandy: Trafalgar Square 1887
- Featherstone 1893
- Tonypandy 1910. Part 6 The Army: domination by the justices
- corporate independence of the Army 1902-1926
- Army and Police from 1926. Part 7 The police: centre-dependency in the metropolis
- breaking the power of the provincial justices and police authorities
- corporate authority. Part 8 The 1981 disorders: threats to the central and local state
- the context of the 1981 riots
- Brixton (April and July)
- Southall
- Liverpool
- Manchester. Part 9 Police and magistracy in contemporary civil disorder: relations between the agencies
- the Petty Sessional Jurisdiction.
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