The Policing of Protest, Disorder and International Terrorism in the UK since 1945
This book examines the nature of protest and the way in which the police and state respond to the activities associated with this term. Protest is explored within the context of the perceived decline in public engagement with recent general election conte
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Peter Joyce
The Policing of Protest, Disorder and International Terrorism in the UK since 1945 Britain in Comparative Perspective Since 1945
Peter Joyce Department of Sociology Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-0-230-54235-8 ISBN 978-1-137-29059-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-29059-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016949046 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover illustration: Homer Sykes Archive / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom
To my wife, Julie, and my daughters, Emmeline and Eleanor
PREFACE
This book focuses on political activity that is not conducted through the formal institutions that are associated with conventional politics and to which the term ‘extra-parliamentary political activities’ is applied. It examines the methods through which these activities have been conducted and the manner in which they have been policed. Its main focus is on the UK (including Northern Ireland), although it is acknowledged that some aspects of protest and (in particular) contemporary terrorism take place in a global setting. Accordingly, this work also considers transnational protest and global terrorism and the response of the international community to actions of this nature. The context within which this book considers protest is the theme of chapter 1, in which it is argued that in the UK, popular engagement with conventional political activity since the latter decades of the twentieth century has declined from the levels that were reached in the period immediately a
