Kieran Mcevoy

Paramilitary Imprisonment in Northern Ireland

Resistance, Management, and Release

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'Criminalization' is viewed as a strategy designed to deny any practical or symbolic acceptance of the political motivation of prisoners. 'Managerialism', it is argued, encompasses a series of scientific discourses to rationalise conflicting interactions with prisoners, from pragmatic accommodations to a dogged determination to prevent further recognition of de facto political status. The book concludes with an analysis of the early release of paramilitary prisoners and the conflict resolution process and some reflections on political prisons as spaces both during and after a political conflict.

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This book offers a unique analysis of paramilitary imprisonment in Northern Ireland. The central focus of the book is the struggle between inmates and the state concerning the prisoners' assertion of their status as political prisoners. Drawing upon interviews with former Republican and Loyalist prisoners as well as prison managers and staff, this book locates that experience within the broader theoretical literature on imprisonment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9780198299073
• ISBN-10: 0198299079
• Artikelnr.: 21325488

Autorenporträt

Kieran McEvoy is a Reader in law at The Queen's University, Belfast

Inhaltsangabe

* Background and Definitions
* 1: Introduction
* I. Prisoner Resistance
* 2: Coping, Resistance, and Political Imprisonment
* 3: Escape: Resistance as Ridicule
* 4: Hunger Strike and Dirty Protest: Resistance as Self-Sacrifice
* 5: Resistance and Violence: Power, Intimidation and the Control of
Space
* 6: Resistance and Law: Prisons, and the Poltical Struggle
* II. Prison Management
* 7: Prison Management and Prison Staff
* 8: Reactive Containment 1969-1975
* 9: Criminalization 1976-1981
* 10: Managerialism 1981-2000
* III. The Early Release of Prisoners
* 11: Prisoner Release, the Peace process, and the Political Character
of the Conflict
* Epilogue Political Prisons and the Construction of Memory
* Appendix 1. Key Prison Events
* Appendix 2. Notes on the Research Process