Ron Dudai

Penality in the Underground

The Ira's Pursuit of Informers

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Produktbeschreibung

Using the IRA as a case-study, the book offers a systematic, in-depth, analysis of the effects of the underground response to informers, providing an empirical and theoretical account of the causes, forms, and functions. The book aims to expand the study of punishment and society and demonstrate its utility to the understanding of non-state actors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 146mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780198759409
• ISBN-10: 0198759401
• Artikelnr.: 64544739

Autorenporträt

Ron Dudai is a senior lecturer at the department of sociology & anthropology, Ben Gurion University, Israel. His work has been published in leading journals including British Journal of Sociology, British Journal of Criminology, Law & Social Inquiry, and Punishment & Society. He was, among others, a member of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and visiting scholar at the Mitchell Institute, Queen's University Belfast. He was awarded the Brian Williams Prize by the British Society of Criminology, and served as co-editor of the Journal of Human Rights Practice.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Underground Penality: Armed Groups, Informers and the Sociology of
Punishment
* 2: The IRA and Informers: An Overview
* 3: Underground Penality and Legitimation Work
* 4: Underground Penality and State-Prefiguration
* 5: Underground Penality and Social Control
* 6: Transitional Penality: Informers as Post-Conflict Enemies
* 7: Reckoning with Punishment: Skeletons in the Closet - And Their
Uses
* 8: Contested Governance: Informing, the Dissident Challenge, and the
Shifting Meaning of Betrayal
* Epilogue: Informing, "Informing", and Transitional Social Control