ISBN10: 0198299079, ISBN13: 9780198299073, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. 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. Four forms of prison resistanceare examined by which prisoners asserted their political status. Dirty protest and hunger strike are characterised as resistance through self sacrifice. Violence, destruction and intimidation areexamined as prison resistance becoming an extension of armed struggle. Escape is analysed as a form of resistance through ridicule. And finally law is considered as instrumental resistance and a dialogical process with a range of audiences. The book then considers a range of prison management adopted by the prison authorities. `Reactive Containment' is described as a military-led model of management which incapacitated the terrorist `enemy' but acknowledged the politicalcharacter of the inmates. `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 ...
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ISBN10: 0198299079, ISBN13: 9780198299073, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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Oxford, England Oxford University Press, USA 2001 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 440 p. Clarendon Studies in Criminology.

Oxford, England Oxford University Press, USA 2001 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 464 p. Clarendon Studies in Criminology.

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Oxford, England Oxford University Press, USA 2001 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 440 p. Clarendon Studies in Criminology.

ISBN10: 0198299079, ISBN13: 9780198299073, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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Oxford, England OUP Oxford 2001 Hard cover Fine in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Clarendon Studies in Criminology. Audience: General/trade. VERY nice unread copy in fine condition. Book is clean and crisp and like new. Contains inscription on first page, otherwise absolutely no markings. DJ is VG with light shelf wear. All books described accurately and shipped promptly in proper packaging. 100% satisfaction guarantee.

Date: 2001. . Hardback. Fine/Fine . In Fine Dustwrapper. 8vo. - as new copy - may have minor shelfwear from storage - Clean bright tight book in untorn dustwrapper 280 pages 2001. ISBN 0198299079 9780198299073 [GB]

ISBN10: 0198299079, ISBN13: 9780198299073, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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ISBN10: 0198299079, ISBN13: 9780198299073, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]