The Hoods (eBook)

Crime and Punishment in Belfast

Heather Hamill (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2010
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3673-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;hoods"e;--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, "e;kneecappings,"e; 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 "e;manfully"e; 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.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.10.2010
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: adolescence • adult males • antisocial behavior • antisocial behaviors • antisocial behaviour • Anti-social Behaviour • attempt • Belfast • blackmail • blanket protest • Bobby Sands • Boredom • burglary • Catholic paramilitaries • Catholics • Civil Conflict • Code of conduct • community development • community recognition • community service • conflict • corporal punishment • Crime • criminal deterrence • criminal justice • Criminal Record • Curfew • Delinquency • Deterrence • Drinking • Employment • Exclusion • Extortion • extralegal governance • feud • Fraud • Gang • Governance • group acceptance • Heroin • hooding • hoods • hoods' subculture • hostility • housing development • Human Rights Watch • hunger strike • Ideology • illegal drug trade • Imprisonment • Indication (medicine) • Informant • internment • Interrogation • intimidation • IRA • Irish National Liberation Army • Irish Republican Army • Irish Republican Army (1922–69) • joyriding • Juvenile Delinquency • Kneecapping • liquor store • Loyalist Paramilitaries • Loyalists • Loyalist Volunteer Force • Martin McGuinness • Milltown Cemetery • misdemeanor • newspaper • Northern Ireland • obstacle • offense patterns • Official Irish Republican Army • Orange Order • ordinary crime • Organizational Structure • Organized Crime • paramilitary • paramilitary groups • paramilitary punishment attacks • Peer Pressure • petty offenders • Plastic bullet • Police • Police Service of Northern Ireland • policing • Political Conflict • Political Party • Political violence • Politician • Politics • Posttraumatic stress disorder • PPAs • Prediction • Prestige • Protestant paramilitaries • protestants • Provisional Irish Republican Army • punishment • Racket (crime) • Red Hand Commando • relationships • Republicanism • Republicans • Republic of Ireland • research data • Research methods • Respondent • Restorative Justice • Robbery • Royal Ulster Constabulary • Security checkpoint • security forces • security guard • self-destructive behaviors • Sexism • Shankill Road • Signaling game • Social Democratic and Labour Party • Society • Status • statutory criminal justice system • Subculture • Supporter • Symptom • Tarring and feathering • Theft • the Irish Times • The Other Hand • toughness • Ulster Defence Association • Ulster Volunteer Force • Unemployment • United Ireland • University of Oxford • Vandalism • Vigilante • Violence • working-class Catholics • working-class culture • young offender • Youth • Youth club • Youth wing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3673-5 / 1400836735
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3673-4 / 9781400836734