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Reading the Riot Act

01 January 1991

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Reading the Riot Act
libdoc March=1992

The magistracy, the police and army in civil disorder

Author: Vogler, Richard
Publisher: Open University Press 1991, Notes, Bibliography, Index

Keywords: Law Military Public order History Brixton Southall
Liverpool
Manchester

"[This book] considers in detail the vigorously contested
relations
between agencies of the state (the Magistracy, the Police and the
Army) involved in the suppression of riot. Based on original
research
into ten major incidents of civil disorder from the Bristol riots
of
1830 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." (Publishers text)

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