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Prisons are everywhere. Yet they are not everywhere alike. How can
we explain the differences in cross-national uses of incarceration?
The Politics of Punishment explores this question by undertaking a
comparative sociological analysis of penal politics and
imprisonment in Ireland and Scotland. Using archives and oral
history, this book shows that divergences in the uses of
imprisonment result from the distinctive features of a nation's
political culture: the different political ideas, cultural values
and social anxieties that shape prison policymaking. Political
culture thus connects large-scale social phenomena to actual
carceral outcomes, illuminating the forces that support and
perpetuate cross-national penal differences. The work therefore
offers a new framework for the comparative study of penality. This
is also an important work of sociology and history. By closely
tracking how and why the politics of punishment evolved and adapted
over time, we also yield rich and compelling new accounts of both
Irish and Scottish penal cultures from 1970 to the 1990s. The
Politics of Punishment will be essential reading for students and
academics interested in the sociology of punishment, comparative
penology, criminology, penal policymaking, law and social history.
Prisons are everywhere. Yet they are not everywhere alike. How can
we explain the differences in cross-national uses of incarceration?
The Politics of Punishment explores this question by undertaking a
comparative sociological analysis of penal politics and
imprisonment in Ireland and Scotland. Using archives and oral
history, this book shows that divergences in the uses of
imprisonment result from the distinctive features of a nation's
political culture: the different political ideas, cultural values
and social anxieties that shape prison policymaking. Political
culture thus connects large-scale social phenomena to actual
carceral outcomes, illuminating the forces that support and
perpetuate cross-national penal differences. The work therefore
offers a new framework for the comparative study of penality. This
is also an important work of sociology and history. By closely
tracking how and why the politics of punishment evolved and adapted
over time, we also yield rich and compelling new accounts of both
Irish and Scottish penal cultures from 1970 to the 1990s. The
Politics of Punishment will be essential reading for students and
academics interested in the sociology of punishment, comparative
penology, criminology, penal policymaking, law and social history.
This volume contains an Open Access Chapter As a peripheral state
within English-speaking criminology, Ireland is often overlooked in
mainstream Anglophone theories of punitiveness and penal
transformation. This edited collection addresses this deficit by
bringing together leading scholars on Irish penal history and
theory to make a case for Ireland's wider theoretical relevance.
Together, these chapters show in rich detail the trends and debates
that have surround patterns of punishment in Ireland since the
formation of the State in 1922. However, by being about twentieth
century Irish penal history, the volume inherently foregrounds
often absent perspectives in criminology and punishment, such as
gender, postcoloniality, religion, rurality, and carcerality beyond
the criminal justice system. This is more than a collection of
Irish criminology, therefore; the social analysis of Irish penal
history is undertaken as a contribution towards southernising
criminology. The authors each seek to engage criminology in a wider
epistemological re-imagining of what is meant by punitiveness,
penal culture, and 'Anglophone' penal history. Opening up new
avenues of exploration and collaboration, and showing how
researchers might look beyond the usual problems, refine the
mainstream trends, and rework the obvious questions, this
collection demonstrates how the Irish perspective remains relevant
for international researchers interested in punishment and history.
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