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, analyzes 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 bursts of
political activity all prominent features.
Drawing on the emerging scholarship of policy analysis, the book
argues that it is only through 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.
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