Kieran McEvoy is a Reader in law at The Queen's University, Belfast

Although ostensibly a study of paramilitary imprisonment in Northern Ireland, McEvoy's work will be of great interest to a much wider readership than criminologists. The book provides insights into far wider aspects of the Northern Ireland problem and is an impressive piece of scholarship. The extensive interview data are illuminating and well utilised ... an impressive book.

• BACKGROUND AND DEFINITIONS ; 1. Introduction ; I. PRISONER RESISTANCE ; 2. Coping, Resistance, and Political Imprisonment ; 3. Escape: Resistance as Ridicule ; 4. Hunger Strike and Dirty Protest: Resistance as Self-Sacrifice ; 5. Resistance and Violence: Power, Intimidation and the Control of Space ; 6. Resistance and Law: Prisons, and the Poltical Struggle ; II. PRISON MANAGEMENT ; 7. Prison Management and Prison Staff ; 8. Reactive Containment 1969-1975 ; 9. Criminalization 1976-1981 ; 10. Managerialism 1981-2000 ; III. THE EARLY RELEASE OF PRISONERS ; 11. Prisoner Release, the Peace process, and the Political Character of the Conflict ; EPILOGUE POLITICAL PRISONS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEMORY ; Appendix 1. Key Prison Events ; Appendix 2. Notes on the Research Process

Kieran McEvoy is a Reader in law at The Queen's University, Belfast

Although ostensibly a study of paramilitary imprisonment in Northern Ireland, McEvoy's work will be of great interest to a much wider readership than criminologists. The book provides insights into far wider aspects of the Northern Ireland problem and is an impressive piece of scholarship. The extensive interview data are illuminating and well utilised ... an impressive book.

• BACKGROUND AND DEFINITIONS ; 1. Introduction ; I. PRISONER RESISTANCE ; 2. Coping, Resistance, and Political Imprisonment ; 3. Escape: Resistance as Ridicule ; 4. Hunger Strike and Dirty Protest: Resistance as Self-Sacrifice ; 5. Resistance and Violence: Power, Intimidation and the Control of Space ; 6. Resistance and Law: Prisons, and the Poltical Struggle ; II. PRISON MANAGEMENT ; 7. Prison Management and Prison Staff ; 8. Reactive Containment 1969-1975 ; 9. Criminalization 1976-1981 ; 10. Managerialism 1981-2000 ; III. THE EARLY RELEASE OF PRISONERS ; 11. Prisoner Release, the Peace process, and the Political Character of the Conflict ; EPILOGUE POLITICAL PRISONS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEMORY ; Appendix 1. Key Prison Events ; Appendix 2. Notes on the Research Process

Kieran McEvoy is a Reader in law at The Queen's University, Belfast

Although ostensibly a study of paramilitary imprisonment in Northern Ireland, McEvoy's work will be of great interest to a much wider readership than criminologists. The book provides insights into far wider aspects of the Northern Ireland problem and is an impressive piece of scholarship. The extensive interview data are illuminating and well utilised ... an impressive book.

• BACKGROUND AND DEFINITIONS ; 1. Introduction ; I. PRISONER RESISTANCE ; 2. Coping, Resistance, and Political Imprisonment ; 3. Escape: Resistance as Ridicule ; 4. Hunger Strike and Dirty Protest: Resistance as Self-Sacrifice ; 5. Resistance and Violence: Power, Intimidation and the Control of Space ; 6. Resistance and Law: Prisons, and the Poltical Struggle ; II. PRISON MANAGEMENT ; 7. Prison Management and Prison Staff ; 8. Reactive Containment 1969-1975 ; 9. Criminalization 1976-1981 ; 10. Managerialism 1981-2000 ; III. THE EARLY RELEASE OF PRISONERS ; 11. Prisoner Release, the Peace process, and the Political Character of the Conflict ; EPILOGUE POLITICAL PRISONS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEMORY ; Appendix 1. Key Prison Events ; Appendix 2. Notes on the Research Process