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THREATS TO PUBLIC ORDER IN BRITAIN: A PAPER PRESENTED TO THE

01 January 1991

THREATS TO PUBLIC ORDER IN BRITAIN: A PAPER PRESENTED TO THE
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION APRIL 1977
refdoc July=1991

BOOKS/PAMPHLETS User Ref = P52685
R Clutterbuck
Army Q and Defence J, Jul 1977 107(3) p279-290 RP52685

Concerned only with political threats, defined as those
organised to induce political change or to coerce a government
or other authority to do something against its will. Threats
examined include those arising from industrial disputes,
political demonstrations, and terrorism. The resultant level
of violence is found to be low, a major factor being the
retention of an unarmed police force.

strike, National Front, United Kingdom, racial conflict,
anarchism, Angry Brigade, bomb, Irish Republican Army,
United Kingdom, law and order

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