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Author Hamill, Heather, 1971-

Title The hoods : crime and punishment in Belfast / Heather Hamill
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 189 pages)
Contents West Belfast -- The hoods -- Search for status -- Signaling games -- Loyalists
Summary 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 cr
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Crime -- Northern Ireland -- Belfast
Criminals -- Northern Ireland -- Belfast
Juvenile delinquents -- Northern Ireland -- Belfast
Punishment -- Northern Ireland -- Belfast
Paramilitary forces -- Northern Ireland -- Belfast
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Crime
Criminals
Juvenile delinquents
Paramilitary forces
Punishment
Northern Ireland -- Belfast
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010014342
ISBN 9781400836734
1400836735
9780691119632
0691119635
1282821091
9781282821095