1. Reading the Riot Act: loval state power and social class -- 2. The magistrate as state servant -- 3. Two versions of magisterial authority: Bristol and Hyde Park -- 4. Provincial magistrates and local power -- 5. Shifts in the relations of power: Trafalgar Square, Featherstone and Tonypandy -- 6. The army -- 7. The police -- 8. The 1981 disorders -- 9. Police and magistracy in contemporary civil disorder
Analysis
England
Social protest History
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references ([183]-197) and index
