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Chapters: Introduction: Who stands to gain 1. How the European community works 2. Fortress Europe 3. Information and big brother 4. Policing Europe 5. Social Europe 6. Human rights for all 7. The case for a civil liberties lobby Appendices Index

Contents:- 1. Truce-maker 2. Falls memories 3. The North erupts 4. The birth of the Provisionals 5. `Most wanted' man 6. Brownie's long war 7. The birth of Sinn Fein 8. Prisoners of war 9. Gerry Adams MP 10. The SDLP looks for help 11. `Undiluted…

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"This book demonstrates that the murder convictions were only one aspect of a police investigation - the largest in the history of the force - that ran wildly out of control. It exposes how uncorroborated confessions were extracted under duress and…

"In this first account of the GCHQ dispute [the authors] recreate the events and atmosphere of the day of the [trade union] ban and explore the motives of the government and GCHQ management. Examining the closed world of GCHQ they give an insight…

Chapters 1-4 include - Ch 1 Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles:from resistance to rebellion Ch 3 The Black Experience in Britain - Race, Class and State - Grunwick - From Immigration Control to "Induced Repatriation" Ch 4 Racism and…

This study of English prisons from 1750 to their nationalization in 1877 is based on a detailed examination of the interplay between policy, administration and staffing. These issues are explored by drawing on a wide range of national and local…

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"A Just Measure of Pain" returns to the moment in eighteenth century England when the modern penitentary and its ambitious legacy were born. In depicting how the whip, the brand and the gallows came to be replaced by the prison and the idea that the…

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Mark Leech was eight years old when his mother died. His father, unable to cope, became an alcoholic. Mark, the youngest child, was taken into care and sent to boarding school. His brief period of happiness there was shatered on the death of his…

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A Witness to Bosnia's Serbs against that country's Muslims. Roy Gutman, foreign correspondent for America's Newsday, and his photographer Andree Kaiser, were the first Western journalists to visit the infamous death camps. His reports cover:…

A theoretical treatise on the state from Plato to Marx focussing on theoretical opposition to the state.

1. Overview 2. Socio-economic structures 3. Ethnic identification and mobilisation 4. National identity, nationality and citicenship 5. Politics and public policy 6. Conclusion - chronology of events - resource and documentation centres -…

"Our law does not tolerate a conviction to be secured by ambush," were the words Lord Justice Glidewll used to conclude her appeal After five days and nights of relentless police interrogation it was just such an arrest and conviction that was to…

"In examining the role of the USA in the post-war world order, Stephen Gill challanges arguements concerning the relative decline of American hegemony. He maintains that instead of equating hegemony with the dominance of one state over other states,…

A record of the daeths of the conflic in Ireland. The author has verified personal details of the victims, studied newspaper reports and coroner's court records. He doccuments the organisations responsible for the killings and the surrounding…

Preface The Power of the establishment 1. Britain as a colony 2. The case for constitutional premiership 3. The case for a constitional civil service 4. Civil liberties and the security services 5. The democratic control of science and…

Before the New Police The First Seventy Years 1901-39 1945-64 From the 1960s onwards Confait, PACE and after Bent for Self Bent for the Job At Work and Play Dislike and Distrust Where Eo We Go From Here
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