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Extortion, drug dealing, sectarian attacks, the murder of rivals and police informants, armed robbery, counterfeiting, smuggling, punishment beatings. Paramilitary crime is often sensationalised by the press or marginalised by academics, but this book shows how crime, and the authorities response to crime, became central to the peace process in Northern Ireland. At times, the activities of loyalist and republican paramilitaries threatened to destabilise the peace in Northern Ireland after 1998, but crime was central to maintaining capacity should the groups return to war, in defending their communities and confronting internal opponents. Over time, the reduction of crime was central to these groups own attempts to reform, and to official judgements as to whether they were genuinely demobilising. The state s response to crime added controversy. Police reform, central to gaining nationalist and republican support, produced the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), ironically a model British force. As crime rose, law enforcement effectiveness was an issue. Police modernisation and the new Organised Crime Task Force signalled the importance of crime control, but the Assets Recovery Agency, supposedly the magic bullet for organised crime, misfired. Law enforcement was also deeply affected by the British state s response to paramilitary crime. By 2007, peace was secure and paramilitaries were de-criminalising , but this often chaotic process was marked with questions about the British state s adherence to the rule of law. Incorporating first-hand research in the PSNI, this timely and controversial book will interest general readers and scholars involved in Irish Studies, criminology, and British and comparative politics.
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Jon Moran is Reader in Criminal Justice at the School of Legal Studies, University of Wolverhampton
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