Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Crime
Crime, Punishment, and Community Policing
Date: Wed, 2002-05-01 22:58
The term 'community policing' has been much abused in recent times, most particularly in the North of Ireland where it has become shorthand for vicious punishment beatings and shootings. In this article Gregor Kerr takes a look at the issue of community policing - what it is and more importantly what it isn't. The question of what levels of real community policing would actually be possible or allowed under capitalism is looked at, and the debate about crime, anti-social behaviour and reactions to it in an anarchist society is touched on. (pic: Anti-heroin dealer march, N. Inner city Dublin c1996 Photo Joe Black)
Crime, Punishment & Community policing
Review - To Keep a Bird Singing, a novel by Kevin Doyle
Date: Wed, 2018-08-29 16:06
A man adrift in the doldrums of the last great crisis finds his stolen punk records. Noelie Sullivan by simply reclaiming his discs sets off a chain of events which quickly unravels his life and puts him and all who know him in danger.
100+ Drugs Decriminalised by Accident, Users Shrug as Prohibition Ineffective
Date: Tue, 2015-03-10 15:00
Over 100 drugs have been temporarily decriminalised by accident due to a legal loophole, including MDMA ('ecstasy'), Ketamine, Benzodiazepine, Methamphetamine, and many head shop 'legal highs'. The Dáil will pass emergency legislation tonight to re-ban these substances, which will be before the Seanad tomorrow.Is paramilitary punishment attacks the answer to crime?
Date: Mon, 2012-05-07 19:15
We maybe 10 years on from the signing of the Good Friday but the blight of militarism in the form of the state and vigilantism continues to raise its ugly head and shows little sign of fading away. In fact it is embedded and enshrined in the new discourse which even the hype around the Titanic cannot simply wash away.
A community stands against punishment attacks in Derry
Date: Sun, 2012-02-19 11:29
Several hundred people from both sides of the community gathered today despite arctic conditions outside Annie’s Bar, in Derry’s Waterside. They came together united in their outrage at last weeks brutal murder of local man Andrew Allen.
Car hijackings in Belfast- A tale of two cities
Date: Wed, 2012-02-01 11:07
Since the new year Belfast has been in the midst of a violent spree of car hijackings across the city mainly targeting vulnerable women. Behind the media spotlight and PSNI spin machine is a deeper context, one where where theose if power are quite contented to confine and manage ’crime’ in working class areas as long as it stays there.
