Collective Violence, Democracy and Protest Policing

David R. Mansley read criminology at undergraduate level, before reading a Master’s degree in sociological research and a PhD in sociology at Lancaster University. His thesis on collective violence was supervised by Prof. Sylvia Walby OBE and Dr. Ian Paylor, and sponsored by the ESRC. He spent fifteen months writing for select committees at the House of Commons.

• 1. Introduction, 2. Democracy and violence, 3.State violence, 4. How to measure violence, plus other methodological issues, 5. Findings, 6. Discussion, 7. Conclusion.

‘David Mansley’s distinctive accomplishment in this book is the combination of innovation and scholarship, achieving breadth without compromise to depth. This coherent, nuanced, contextualised well-judged book is the benchmark against which all others in this field should be judged.’Ian Paylor, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK‘In this wide-ranging and innovative book David Mansley shows how interpersonal and collective violence and democratic political processes are connected. He does this through a combination of erudite engagement with the social and political theory of Tilly, Elias, Hobbes and many others, with detailed and systematic empirical analysis of UK trends in violence, policing and democratic participation. This is an important book for criminologists, sociologists, political scientists and anyone interested in understanding the nature of contemporary protest and democracy.’Larry Ray, Professor of Sociology, University of Kent, UK