The riots in Britain 1981 : urban violence and political marginalisation / John Lea and Jock Young --Policing and institutionalised racism on Merseyside /Phil Scraton -- Civil liberties and civil disorder /Harriet Harman -- Police authorities and accountability : the Merseyside experience / Margaret Simey -- Accountability and the metropolitan police /Steve Bundred -- Law, democracy and justice : the question of police accountability / Jony Jefferson and Roger Grimshaw -- Police autonomy and the politics of discretion / Richard Kinsey and Jock Young -- The case for community policing / John Alderson -- Scarman and after / David Cowell and John Lea -- Chronology, 1981 /Sarah Spencer