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GAINING THE PEACE

01 January 1991

GAINING THE PEACE
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JOURNAL ARTICLE , User Ref = 010114 , Acc Date = 01-Dec-86
J Alderson
Crim Law Rev, Nov 1986 pp708-718

Argues that the undue use of violence by the state to counter
civil disorder or individual crime is indicative of a failure to
maintain one of the cornerstones of democracy: the ability to
bring about social change peacefully. Considers this issue in the
context of the increasing use of capital punishment in the
United States, the arming of the British police during riots or
in the apprehension of dangerous criminals, and the policing of
the miners strike. Emphasises the dangers of meeting violence
with violence, and looks at methods of reducing the chances of
such conflict. The establishment of a non-judicial Peace
Commission as a kind of permanent Scarman inquiry is recommended
as an idea worth further investigation.

United Kingdom, industrial dispute, mining industry,
demonstration

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