Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Behan, Cormac, author.

Title Citizen convicts : prisoners, politics and the vote / Cormac Behan.

Publication Info. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, [2014]
New York, NY : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan.
©2014

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations
data file
Series JSTOR EBA.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Citizenship by civic virtue? -- 2. Prisoners and the politics of enfranchisement -- 3. Political change, penal continuity and prisoner enfranchisement -- 4. Voting and political engagement -- 5. Enfranchisement : the prisoner as citizen -- 6. Civic engagement and community participation -- 7. Imprisonment and citizenship.
Summary Prisoner enfranchisement remains one of the few contested electoral issues in 21st-century democracies. It is at the intersection of punishment and representative government. Many jurisdictions remain divided on whether or not prisoners should be allowed access to the franchise. This book investigates the experience of prisoner enfranchisement in the Republic of Ireland.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Prisoners -- Suffrage -- Ireland.
Prisoners -- Suffrage.
Ireland.
Prisoners -- Suffrage.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Behan, Cormac. Citizen convicts. Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2014] 9780719088384 (DLC) 2015301069 (OCoLC)885300187
ISBN 9781526101723 (electronic book)
1526101726 (electronic book)
9781781707425 (electronic book)
1781707421 (electronic book)
9780719088384 (hardback)
0719088380 (hardback)