Citizen convicts : prisoners, politics and the vote / Cormac Behan.
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TextPublisher: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, [2014]Distributor: New York, NY : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave MacmillanCopyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781526101723
- 1526101726
- 9781781707425
- 1781707421
- Prisoners -- Suffrage -- Ireland
- Prisoners -- Suffrage
- Prisoners -- Ireland -- Suffrage
- Prisonniers -- Suffrage -- Irlande
- Prisonniers -- Suffrage
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General
- Prisoners -- Suffrage
- Ireland
- Government - Non-U.S
- Law, Politics & Government
- Government - Europe
- 324.6208692709417 23
- JN1541 .B45 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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