 | Rural Disorder and Police Reform in Ireland, 1812-36 Subjects: Rural and Urban Life; Crime and Punishment; Agencies and Institutions; Humanities; Social Sciences; The Legal System; Crimes; National State; History; Criminology and Criminal Justice; Policing ; Armed Forces; British History; Irish History; Crime Control; Criminal Justice; Historical Criminology; Police; Criminal Justice History; Criminology and Law; In this book which was first published in 1970, author Galen Broeker traces the events of a crucial period in the struggle of the British government to bring law and order to rural Ireland. He demonstrates that throughout the forty years following the union a major challenge to government in Ireland was the sporadic violence that seemed endemic to the rural south and west. Organizations of Irish peasants terrorized the countryside in protest against a political and economic system that seemed to threaten their very existence. The formation in 1814 of the Peace Preservation Force is examined. This was the first in a long series of experiments aimed at an efficient and impartial system of law enforcement. This title will be of interest to student of history and criminology. Multivolume collection by leading authors in the field |
