Prison policy in Ireland: politics, penal-welfarism and political imprisonment /
This book explores how Irish prison policy has come to take on its particular character, with comparatively low prison numbers, significant reliance on short sentences and a policy-making climate in which long periods of neglect are interspersed with bursts of political activity all prominent featur...
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New York :
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2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Understanding prison policy : the sociology of punishment and policy-making
- Prison policy in Ireland from independence to 'the emergency'
- Civil War and conservative administration
- Prison policy during 'the emergency': the recurring effects of subversion and stagnation
- Prison policy during the 1950s : low numbers and limited interest
- Prison policy during the 1960s : 'solo runs' and social change
- Prison policy in the 1970s : subversion, suspicion and tension
- Prison policy during the 1980s
- Prison policy during the 1990s : the crucial decade
- Prison policy since 2000 and beyond
- Conclusion : unravelling the nature of Irish prison policy.