Crime and Punishment in Belfast
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 invo...
Winner of the 2012 James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books on History and the Social Sciences, American Conference for Irish Studies "The Hoods is a very readable book that will be of great interest to all who have worked in the criminal justice system in any capacity but particularly those who have worked with young offenders. The author's skill both in eliciting the views of young people and in presenting those views in a fair and accessible way allow the book to reach out to a wider readership beyond Northern Ireland."--Brian Stout, Policing
Heather Hamill is university lecturer in sociology at the University of Oxford and a fellow of St. Cross College, Oxford. She is the coauthor of "Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Customers' Trustworthiness".
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Chapter One: West Belfast 17 Chapter Two: The Hoods 51 Chapter Three: Search for Status 81 Chapter Four: Signaling Games 105 Chapter Five: Loyalists 127 Conclusion 143 Notes 149 Glossary of Terms 167 Bibliography 171 Index 185