W.J. MacKay and the NSW Police, 1910-1948 : a dangerous man / / Richard Evans

• Autore: Evans Richard
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 pages)
• Disciplina: 363.2092
• Soggetto topico: Police - Australia - New South Wales; Police
• Soggetto geografico: New South Wales
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1 'The Dominant Personality in the Force' -- 2 Structure -- 2 'The Ladder of Promotion': Leadership and Succession in the New South Wales Police Force, 1910-1929 -- 1 'I Do not Wish to Brag': MacKay's Background, Real and Imagined -- 2 The New South Wales Police Force in 1910 -- 3 'Efictitiousvidence': The IWW Affair -- 4 An Officer on the Rise -- 5 Hurdling Police: The Irish 'Envoys' -- 6 The Bunnerong Scandal -- 7 'I Am Energetic and Ambitious': Seniority and favouritism -- 3 'Razorhurst': The Expansion of Police Power, 1927-1930 -- 1 The White Peril -- 2 The Invention of 'Razorhurst' -- 3 Snowstorm: The Creation of the Drug Squad -- 4 'A Very Dangerous Public Consequence': Warnings and Outcomes -- 4 'Murderous Coppers': Policing the Timber Strike and the Coal Lockout, 1929-1930 -- 1 The Union Buries Its Dead -- 2 The Mythology of Rothbury -- 3 Police and Industrial Disputes -- 4 'It Was Bad Trouble': The Timber Strike -- 5 'Getting Cunning': The Strike Leaders' Trial -- 6 'We Will "Go" the Miners': Tragedy at Rothbury -- 7 'Inspector MacKay's "Basher Gangs"': Reasserting Police Power -- 8 'The Feeling Against the Police Was Very Strong': Power and Authority -- 5 'Fascism, with Modifications': The New Guard, the 'Old Guard', and Challenges to State Power, 1931-32 -- 1 Cutting the Ribbon -- 2 The New Guard and the "Secret Armies" -- 3 Fascism, Conservatism and the State -- 4 High Policing: Police and Enemies of the State -- 5 'The Future Is Fraught with the Gravest Possibilities': The New Guard Emerges -- 6 'If It Is Necessary to Use Force the Police Will Not Hesitate': Ultimatum -- 6 'Belt Their Bloody Heads Off': The Police Response to the New Guard, 1932 -- 1 'Insulting Words' -- 2 'Belt Their Bloody Heads Off': Reasserting Physical Power. ; 3 'A Parade of Police on a Scale Seldom Witnessed': Reasserting Symbolic Power -- 4 'Fascist Legion': Discrediting the New Guard -- 5 'Next in Line for the Post of Commissioner' -- 7 'A Dangerous Power': Independence, Accountability and the Police Commissioner, 1934-1935 -- 1 Specially Big Boots: Police Independence and Accountability -- 2 'The Duty of the Police is Solely to the Law': The Salisbury Dismissal -- 3 'Beyond the Control of Anyone': The Amendment -- 4 'Our Brilliant Young Police Commissioner': MacKay Reaches the Top -- 8 The SP Royal Commission: Police Power, Corruption and Scandal, 1936 -- 1 'He Kept a "Tote"': SP Bookmaking -- 2 'The Pimps System': Policing Unpopular Laws -- 3 The Other Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Police -- 4 'The Police Are Rottenly Corrupt': The Mobilisation of Scandal -- 5 'My Unpleasant Duty': The SP Royal Commission -- 6 'Do It Clean': Leadership, Management and Corruption -- 7 Law Enforcement by Other Means: The Illegal Extension of Police Power -- 8 The Whistleblower -- 9 The Miller Scandal: Power, Loyalty and Police Culture, 1937 -- 1 Mowlds' Ham and Beef Shop Revisited: The Response to Scandal -- 2 'A Bloody Phizz-Gig': The Persecution of Constable Miller -- 3 'The Fear': Power, Police Culture and the Code of Silence -- 4 'Is Const. Miller Victim of Police Terrorism?': The Extension of Scandal -- 5 'It Humiliates Me': The Miller Royal Commission -- 6 'Dangerous Men': The Redemption of Sergeant Chuck -- 7 'A Very Severe Ordeal': The Consequences of Scandal -- 10 'I Am in Charge of the Police Ship': The Minister, the Union and the Power of the Commissioner, 1938-1942 -- 1 'Crawling to W.J.': Independence, Autocracy and Intervention -- 2 'Foibles or Misdemeanours': Controlling Political Masters -- 3 'Attack Crime from the Cradle': The Police Boys' Clubs -- 4 'Give Me This Power': The Overtime Affair. ; 5 An 'Australian FBI': The Security Service -- 11 Policing 'the Abominable Crime': Legislated Morality, Selective Enforcement and the Abuse of Power, 1937-1943 -- 1 A Charge of Indecency -- 2 A Secret World: Homosexuality and the Police -- 3 'A Grave Public Scandal': The 'McNally' Affair -- 4 'A Thorough Overhauling': Aftermath -- 5 'Malice Could Go No Further': The Fall of S.A. Maddocks -- 12 The 'Appalling Vista': Police Power and Miscarriages of Justice, 1932 and 1944 -- 1 'Fiendish Murder': the Wilkinson and Denzil Killings -- 2 'Eye for Eye': Miscarriages of Justice -- 3 The Hunt for William Moxley -- 4 'I don't Know Why I Done This Thing': Fatal Confession -- 5 The Pyjama Girl -- 6 'I Am a Policeman and Have a Duty to Do': MacKay and Agostini -- 7 'Such Methods Were Conducive Only of Failure': the Police Culture and Miscarriages of Justice -- 13 The Keogh Scandal: Unaccountable Power and Systemic Corruption, 1946-1947 -- 1 Sunny Corner: The Holiday House Affair -- 2 'There is Too Much Covered up Because of Fear': the Keogh Scandal -- 14 Conclusion -- 1 'Visionary yet Arrogant': Assessing W.J. MacKay -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: W.J. MacKay and the NSW Police, 1910-1948
• ISBN: 3-031-10921-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910590085903321
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