Citizen convicts : Prisoners, politics and the vote /
Prisoner enfranchisement remains one of the few contested electoral issues in 21st-century democracies. It is at the intersection of punishment and representative government. Many jurisdictions remain divided on whether or not prisoners should be allowed access to the franchise. This book investigat...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Manchester University Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Citizenship by civic virtue?
- 2. Prisoners and the politics of enfranchisement
- 3. Political change, penal continuity and prisoner enfranchisement
- 4. Voting and political engagement
- 5. Enfranchisement : the prisoner as citizen
- 6. Civic engagement and community participation
- 7. Imprisonment and citizenship.