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The voluntary sector has a long history of involvement in criminal
justice by providing a variety of services to offenders and their
families, victims and witnesses. This collection brings together
leading experts to provide critical reflections and cutting edge
research on the contemporary features of voluntary sector work in
criminal justice. At a time when the voluntary sector's role is
being transformed, this book examines the dynamic nature of the
voluntary sector and its responses to current uncertainties, and
some of the conflicting positions with regards to its present and
future role in criminal justice work. It also examines the
potential impact of economic, political and ideological trends on
the role and remit of voluntary sector organisations which
undertake criminal justice work.
This book provides a comprehensive account of the imprisonment of
women for politically motivated offences in Northern Ireland
between 1972 and 1999. Women political prisoners were engaged in a
campaign to obtain formal recognition as political prisoners, and
then to retain this status after it was revoked. Their lengthy
involvement in a prison conflict of international significance was
notable as much because of its longevity as the radical aspects of
their prison protests, which included hunger strikes,
dirty-protests and campaigns against institutional abuses. Out of
Order brings out the qualitatively distinctive character and
punitive ethos of regimes of political imprisonment for women,
exploring the dynamics of their internal organisation, the ways in
which they subverted order and security in prison, and their
strategies of resistance and exploitation. Drawing upon a wide
range of first hand accounts and interviews this book brings
together perspectives from the areas of political imprisonment, the
penal punishment of women and the question of agency and resistance
in prison to create a unique, highly readable study of a neglected
subject.
This fresh collection of essays examines the continued significance
of gender as a marker of inequality in the lives of women across
diverse contexts in Irish society. It is a cliche to say that we
live in a knowledge society, but exactly whose knowledge sets the
economic, political, social, and cultural parameters in any given
society? Contributors tackle this question by taking the reader on
a gender knowledge journey through the contemporary workplace, the
state and civil society and into the education and wider cultural
domains. The essays demonstrate the persistence of power
differentials, the resilience of gender stereotypes and the ongoing
reproduction of specific kinds of gender exclusions. Ideas about
gender (often outdated and ill conceived) continue to maintain
existing power imbalances in tech work, finance, education, and
media. Those ideas also frame public policy debates about sex work,
homelessness, women's activism and reproductive rights. Finally, a
gender knowledge perspective reveals the downstream impact of
gender and others forms of difference and inequality in relation to
the teaching profession, game culture, book reviewing and access to
archival materials on historical abuse. Producing Knowledge,
Reproducing Gender: power, production and practice in Ireland will
appeal to those interested in gender studies, political sociology
and the sociology of knowledge.
Since the mid-1990s Ireland has experienced an extraordinary phase
of economic and social development. Housing estates have mushroomed
around towns and cities, most notably around the environs of
Dublin. Seeking to understand the impact of these recent
developments, Corcoran, Gray, and Peillon initiated the New Urban
Living study, a detailed research project focused on four suburbs
of Dublin. ""Suburban Affiliations"" represents the culmination of
that research, offering an invaluable contribution to the study of
suburbanization and to our understanding of the process of social
change that has come to Ireland. Challenging the mostly negative
assessment that has been made of the suburban social fabric, the
authors argue that residents of suburban estates are not
disoffiliated; rather, they are connected with the place they live
and with each other in many different ways. The book maps the
nature, quality, and focus of these affiliations, analyzing the
ways in which suburbs differ from one another. The authors consider
whether the Irish suburbs exhibit indigenous or European qualities,
or whether they are an extension of a globalizing American suburban
frontier. Employing a case study approach, they provide rich
insight into how those who live in the suburbs feel about their
surroundings. At the same time, the book as a whole develops a
universal narrative that coheres around the notion of suburban
affiliations.
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