| Description |
1 online resource (273 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories |
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Routledge SOLON explorations in crime and criminal justice histories.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Series editor introduction; Abbreviations; Table of statutes; Table of cases; Introduction; A historico-legal methodological framework; Public order law and the historiography of civil disorder; 1 The development of public order law; Introduction; Residual freedom, civil liberties and human rights; The development of public order law; 2 'I predict a breach of the peace': police discretion and the tension between liberty and order; Introduction; The breach of the peace doctrine; Police discretion |
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6 Public meetings and freedom of expression: the criminalisation of words and political censorshipIntroduction; Legal definitions; The police and the criminalisation of words; The historic claim to the 'right' of public meeting; The police at BUF meetings; Policing communist activism; Public Order Bill 1936; The police, anti-Semitism and the Public Order Act; Policing public meetings after the Second World War; The Public Order Act 1986; The Human Rights Act and restrictions on the freedom of expression; Conclusion |
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7 Public meetings held on private premises: the roles of the steward and the policeIntroduction; Legal definitions; Police responses to disorder in meetings in the nineteenth century; Pre-War disruption of political meetings; Blackshirt brutality and the Olympia meeting 1934; Thomas v Sawkins; The Public Order Act 1936; Stewarding political meetings in the Post-War era; The imminence of disorder; Conclusion; 8 Dressed for disorder: the criminalisation of political uniforms; Introduction; Promoting and provoking disorder; Political uniforms and interwar politics; Post-War prosecutions under s1 |
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Obstruction of the highway: the use of existing legislation to regulate processionsThe National Unemployed Workers Movement; The marching Blackshirts; Conclusion; 5 Freedom of assembly and public processions: regulation and policing after the Public Order Act 1936; Introduction; The Public Order Act 1936; The post-war legacy of s3 Public Order Act 1936; The current law regarding the regulation of public processions; The English Defence League; The police use of 'strategic incapacitation'; Conclusion |
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The police officer in actionConclusion; 3 Riot and violent disorder: controlling spontaneous disorder and excessive police violence; Introduction; Definitions; Understanding the crowd; Reading the Riot Act; The common law offence of riotous assembly; Suppressing the riot; Conclusion; 4 Freedom of assembly and public processions: regulation and policing before the Public Order Act 1936; Introduction; Legal definitions; The march of the Chartists 1838-1848; Beatty v Gillbanks : A common law solution to regulating processions? |
| Summary |
Incidences of public disorder, and the manner in which they have been suppressed, have repeatedly ignited debate on the role of policing, the effectiveness of current legislation and the implications for human rights and civil liberties. These same issues have reverberated throughout British history, and have frequently resulted in the enactment of new legislation that reactively aimed to counter the specific concern of that era. This book offers a detailed analysis of the expansion of public order law in the context of the historical and political developments in British society. The correlati |
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Conclusion |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain -- History.
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Law enforcement -- Great Britain -- History.
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Police -- Great Britain -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1136179704 |
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9781136179709 |
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