Crime In Ireland 1945–95

Here Be Dragons

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ID8088441
AuthorsJohn D Brewer (0000-0002-4213-5830), Bill Lockhart, Paula Rodgers
Year1997
Pages268
Publication date1997-07-10
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCrime in Ireland, 1945-95 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198265702.001.0001
OpenAlexW103325801
ISBN9780198265702
Open LibraryOL655199M
LanguageEN
Citations received12

This book establishes Ireland's unique contribution to criminological research, addressing the effects on crime of its peculiar patterns of industrialisation and social change, as well as the effect on ordinary crime of a quarter of a century of civil unrest and terrorism. Crime trends are explored over a fifty-year period between 1945–95 at the national level for the two Irish countries as a whole, and at a city level for Belfast and Dublin. Trends in specific categories of crime, from murder to rape and drug crime, are also explored over the same period. The book makes a significant contribution by supplementing statistical material with ethnographic data. It reports on in-depth interview material among residents in two areas of Belfast, one in largely Catholic West Belfast and the other in largely Protestant East Belfast. In these interviews, those questioned speak of their own experiences of crime, the police, and the paramilitary organisations

Criminology · Political science · Sociology · History · Irish and British Studies · 20th century · Crime · Criminal statistics · ireland · Social conditions

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