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-A wide-ranging and perceptive book .... A significant thrust and contribution of this book is Fields' discussion of psychological and social control procedures and practices .... (Fields') report is a challenge to humanity and an indictment of English patricianism, racism, and imperialism.- --Alfred McClung Lee -Dr. Rona Fields is a brave and deeply compassionate human being, a committed researcher who cannot be intimidated by gunmen, English soldiers, bigots, ferocious politicians, or the horrors of confronting human suffering in dreadful forms. This valiant woman deserves international praise and recognition for her unflinching study of a tragic society.- --Dennis Clark, National Catholic Reporter A wide-ranging and perceptive book .... A significant thrust and contribution of this book is Fields' discussion of psychological and social control procedures and practices .... (Fields') report is a challenge to humanity and an indictment of English patricianism, racism, and imperialism. --Alfred McClung Lee Dr. Rona Fields is a brave and deeply compassionate human being, a committed researcher who cannot be intimidated by gunmen, English soldiers, bigots, ferocious politicians, or the horrors of confronting human suffering in dreadful forms. This valiant woman deserves international praise and recognition for her unflinching study of a tragic society. --Dennis Clark, National Catholic Reporter A wide-ranging and perceptive book .... A significant thrust and contribution of this book is Fields' discussion of psychological and social control procedures and practices .... (Fields') report is a challenge to humanity and an indictment of English patricianism, racism, and imperialism. --Alfred McClung Lee Dr. Rona Fields is a brave and deeply compassionate human being, a committed researcher who cannot be intimidated by gunmen, English soldiers, bigots, ferocious politicians, or the horrors of confronting human suffering in dreadful forms. This valiant woman deserves international praise and recognition for her unflinching study of a tragic society. --Dennis Clark, National Catholic Reporter

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Rona M. Fields, formerly associate professor of psychology at Clark University, is a psychologist and sociologist who has focused her research on social prejudice and violence in many different countries. While associate director of the National Center on the Study of Corporal Punishment and Its Alternatives, her 1973 report on the prevailing conditions in Northern Ireland was censored and withdrawn from the British market. Northern Ireland: Society Under Siege is an expanded analysis of that research., Alfred McClung Lee is professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and visiting scholar at Drew University. Dr. Lee's research has emphasized the study of conflict, with special reference to the Irish.

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