RT Article
T1 Symbolic power and police legitimacy: the Royal Ulster Constabulary
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 38
IS 3
SP 295
OP 310
A1 Smyth, Jim
LA English
YR 2002
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1882877950
AB In the following discussion we approach the issue of police legitimacy inNorthern Ireland through Habermas's theory of legitimacy and the shiftinglocus of conflict from the economic to the cultural sphere. It is argued thatthe cultural sphere is often a major site of conflict in divided societies suchas Northern Ireland. The process of economic globalisation - a crucialfactor in the emergence of identity based movements elsewhere - has hadthe effect of intensifying conflict over identity and its symbolicrepresentation. The debate on the reform of the RUC in the wake of thePatten Commission Report has focused principally on the recommendationthat the symbolism of the police be changed. Although this conflict oversymbols condenses the central problem of the exclusion and misrecognitionof nationalists it also has the effect of distracting attention from the moreuniversal theme of the Report: the relationship between citizens, police andthe state.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 309-310
K1 Central Problem
K1 Commission Report
K1 Economic Globalisation
K1 International Relation
K1 Major Site
DO 10.1023/A:1020656625353