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(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2013-10)The article discusses the penal policy of Ireland that is characterised by a collection of lacks along with growing infatuation with the prison. It informs about acceleration in the imprisonment at a rate in Ireland higher ...
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(Round Hall, 2013-07)Comments on recommendations by the Sub-Committee on Penal Reform supporting a reversal of the expansionist approach to imprisonment in Ireland through: (1) the adoption of a decarceration strategy; (2) substituting community ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2012-01)Taking the life sentence as the new 'ultimate penalty' for many countries, this paper explores the factors associated with the release of life-sentence prisoners on parole. The Republic of Ireland is selected as a case ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2012-03)The history of capital punishment in post-Independence Ireland has received scant scholarly attention. This essay is an attempt to set out what can be learned about the executed persons, the executioners, and the politicians ...
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(University of St. Thomas. Center for Irish Studies, 2014-12)The genealogy of capital punishment in twentieth-century Ireland defies easy articulation, and several aspects of the practice appear especially perplexing in the absence of an appreciation of a precise historical context. ...
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(Manchester University Press, 2012-06)This book provides an overview of the incarceration of tens of thousands of men, women and children during the first fifty years of Irish independence. Psychiatric hospitals, mother and baby homes, Magdalen homes, Reformatory ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2011-01)The colonial origins of the Irish criminal justice system can be seen its buildings, laws, procedures, and practices. When change occurs it is often driven by events rather than emerging from a deliberative process that ...
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(Manchester University Press, 2010-12)Late nineteenth-century homicides in Ireland had several distinctive characteristics. They took place in every county, were largely a male preserve, and regularly involved elderly victims. Heavy drinking was a factor in ...
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(Sage Publications, 2014-04)In a series of five year-long works the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh captured critical aspects of the prisoner’s experience including the meaning of time, the rigours of solitary confinement, the impact of ...
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(Sage Publications, 2010-04)The most famous play in the history of Irish theater, J.M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World has been oddly neglected in sociology and criminology. This article examines the provenance of the violence around which ...