Catholic Police Officers Northern Irl CB: Voices Out of Silence

by Mary Gethins

This exciting new monograph aims to establish the historical and cultural reasons why there was only a participation rate of 7-8% by the Catholic population in policing Northern Ireland when the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) came into being in 2001, even though Catholics constituted 46% of the total population. It also aims to ascertain whether or not implementation of the Patten Commission's recommendation to recruit to the PSNI on a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719082919
• ISBN13: 9780719082917
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"