Citizen convicts : prisoners, politics and the vote / Cormac Behan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Behan, Cormac, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners--Suffrage--Ireland.

Prisoners.

Prisoners--Suffrage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 222 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Prisoner enfranchisement remains one of the few contested electoral issues in 21st century democracies. It is at the intersection of punishment and representative government. Many jurisdictions remain divided on whether or not prisoners should be allowed access to the franchise. This book investigates the experience of prisoner enfranchisement in the Republic of Ireland. It examines the issue in a comparative context, beginning by locating prisoner enfranchisement in a theoretical framework, exploring the arguments for and against allowing prisoners to vote. Drawing on global developments in jurisprudence and penal policy, it examines the background to, and wider significance of, this change in the law.

Contents:

1. Citizenship by civic virtue?

2. Prisoners and the politics of enfranchisement

3. Political change, penal continuity and prisoner enfranchisement

4. Voting and political engagement

5. Enfranchisement

the prisoner as citizen

6. Civic engagement and community participation

7. Imprisonment and citizenship.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526101730

1526101734

9781526101723

1526101726

9781781707425

1781707421

OCLC:

1064563929