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The hoods : crime and punishment in Belfast / / Heather Hamill



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Autore: Hamill Heather <1971-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The hoods : crime and punishment in Belfast / / Heather Hamill Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2010
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
Disciplina: 364.9416/7
Soggetto topico: Crime - Northern Ireland - Belfast
Criminals - Northern Ireland - Belfast
Juvenile delinquents - Northern Ireland - Belfast
Punishment - Northern Ireland - Belfast
Paramilitary forces - Northern Ireland - Belfast
Soggetto non controllato: Belfast
Catholic paramilitaries
Catholics
IRA
Irish Republican Army
Loyalist paramilitaries
Loyalists
Northern Ireland
PPAs
Protestant paramilitaries
Protestants
Republicans
adult males
antisocial behavior
antisocial behaviors
antisocial behaviour
civil conflict
community recognition
conflict
crime
criminal deterrence
delinquency
deterrence
extralegal governance
group acceptance
hoods' subculture
hoods
joyriding
juvenile delinquency
offense patterns
ordinary crime
paramilitary groups
paramilitary punishment attacks
petty offenders
police
policing
political conflict
politics
prestige
punishment
relationships
research data
research methods
self-destructive behaviors
signaling game
status
statutory criminal justice system
subculture
toughness
violence
working-class Catholics
working-class culture
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. West Belfast -- Two. The Hoods -- Three. Search for Status -- Four. Signaling Games -- Five. Loyalists -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary of terms -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: A distinctive feature of the conflict in Northern Ireland over the past forty years has been the way Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries have policed their own communities. This has mainly involved the violent punishment of petty criminals involved in joyriding and other types of antisocial behavior. Between 1973 and 2007, more than 5,000 nonmilitary shootings and assaults were attributed to paramilitaries punishing their own people. But despite the risk of severe punishment, young petty offenders--known locally as "hoods"--continue to offend, creating a puzzle for the rational theory of criminal deterrence. Why do hoods behave in ways that invite violent punishment? In The Hoods, Heather Hamill explains why this informal system of policing and punishment developed and endured and why such harsh punishments as beatings, "kneecappings," and exile have not stopped hoods from offending. Drawing on a variety of sources, including interviews with perpetrators and victims of this violence, the book argues that the hoods' risky offending may amount to a game in which hoods gain prestige by displaying hard-to-fake signals of toughness to each other. Violent physical punishment feeds into this signaling game, increasing the hoods' status by proving that they have committed serious offenses and can "manfully" take punishment yet remained undeterred. A rare combination of frontline research and pioneering ideas, The Hoods has important implications for our fundamental understanding of crime and punishment.
Titolo autorizzato: The hoods  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-82109-1
9786612821097
1-4008-3673-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910827501003321
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