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Prison policy in Ireland: politics, penal-welfarism and political imprisonment /
This book 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 featur...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 246 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203828885 0203828887 9781136811456 1136811451 9781136811401 1136811400 9781136811449 1136811443 1283103966 9781283103961 9786613103963 6613103969 |