Prison policy in Ireland : politics, penal-welfarism and political imprisonment / Mary Rogan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogan, Mary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons--Ireland.

Prisons.

Prison administration--Ireland.

Prison administration.

Punishment--Ireland.

Punishment.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

xvii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

This book is the first examination of the history of prison policy in Ireland. Despite sharing a legal and penal heritage with the United Kingdom, Ireland's prison policy has taken a different path. This book examines how penal-welfarism was experienced in Ireland, shedding further light on the nature of this concept as developed by David Garland. While the book has an Irish focus, it has a theoretical resonance far Beyond Ireland.

This book investigates, and describes prison policy in Ireland since the foundation of the state in 1922, analyses and assesses the factors influencing policy during this period and explores, and examines the links between prison policy and the wider social, economic, political and cultural development of the Irish state.

It also 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 burst of political activity all prominent featured.

Drawing or the emerging scholarship of policy analysis, the book argues that it is only througth close attention to the way in which policy is formed that we will fully understand the nature of prison policy. In addition, the book examines the effect of political imprisonment in the Republic of Ireland, which, until now, has remained relatively unexplored.'

This book will be of special interest to students of criminology within Ireland but also of relevance to students of comparative criminal justice, criminology and criminal justice policy-making in the UK and beyond. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415616188

0415616182

9780415616195

0415616190

9780203828885

0203828887

OCLC:

665064405