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Article: Policing Under Fire: Ethnic Conflict and Police-Community Relations in Northern Ireland.
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Criminology
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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Policing Under Fire. Ethnic Conflict and Police-Community Relations in Northern Ireland by Ronald Weitzer. Albany, N.Y.: New York State University Press. 1995.
Ronald Weitzer offers us the book, Policing Under Fire: Ethnic Conflict and Police-Community Relations in Northern Ireland in the context of a very important premise: that policing is shaped by the relation between communities, consent, and the state. Weitzer argues that most research of both community-police relations and community policing begins with background assumptions about the legitimacy of the police. Weitzer, in contrast, shows us in a thorough analysis exploring the structure of policing and ...