Paramilitary imprisonment in Northern Ireland : resistance, management, and release /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	McEvoy, Kieran.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Description:	xv, 442 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Clarendon studies in criminology
Subject:	Political prisoners -- Northern Ireland. Imprisonment -- Northern Ireland. Government, Resistance to -- Northern Ireland. Prison administration -- Northern Ireland. Government, Resistance to. Imprisonment. Political prisoners. Prison administration. Northern Ireland.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4532096

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ISBN:	0198299079 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-413) and index.

Table of Contents:

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 Political 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

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