The perspectives of prison educators on the education system in Irish prisons
This research study will aim to examine the Prison Educators perspective on prison education in Irish prisons. It shall explore the perspectives of teachers that work in Irish Prisons. It will examine their views on prison education in a number of areas including benefits of education, the prison curriculum and their professional background. The participants have all worked within the prison environment for a substantial number of years and have worked in a number of the education units such as Male, Female and Juvenile Centres. The study was conducted using qualitative analysis and analysed using thematic analysis. The results show the participants to have positive regard towards their students and overall good feeling towards the education system. However the participants did discuss negative aspect of the career such as the conditions of the prisons, the security issues and disruption to education. This research study supported much of the literature done in the area surrounding prison education although there has been less research done in the area of the educators perspective on education.
Crime and Punishment in Dundalk. The Transportation of Irish Women in 19th Century Ireland: A Case History
This article focuses on the tale of two sisters, Margaret and Judith Byrne, who were arrested in Dundalk for the larceny of a pair of shoes, transferred to Grange Gorman Lane, transportation depot, and disposed of on the Phoebe in 1845 to Van Diemen’s Land. This article examines the case as it was presented to the courts including the petitions put forward on behalf of the sisters. Their journey from Dundalk to Hobart will be considered and documentary analysis will uncover how the sisters fared once they stepped foot on Vandemonian soil.
Mass Imprisonment: Social Causes and Consequences
Introduction - David Garland The Meaning of Mass Imprisonment The Causes and Consequences of Prison Growth in the United States - Marc Mauer Fear and Loathing in Late Modernity - Jonathan Simon Reflections on the Cultural Sources of Mass Imprisonment in the United States Television, Public Space and Prison Population - Thomas Mathiesen A Commentary on Mauer and Simon Governing Social Marginality - Katherine Beckett and Bruce Western Welfare Incarceration and the Transformation of State The Macho Penal Economy - David Downes Mass Incarceration in the United States- A European Perspective Novus ordo saeclorum? A Commentary on Downes, and on Beckett and Western - David Greenberg Deadly Symbiosis - Lo[ac]ic Wacquant When Ghetto and Prison Meet and Merge Going Straight - Elijah Anderson The Story of a Young Inner-City Ex-Convict Bringing the Individual Back In - Jerome Miller A Commentary on Wacquant and Anderson Imprisonment Rates and the New Politics of Criminal Punishment - Franklin Zimring Unthought Thoughts - Michael Tonry The Influence of Changing Sensibilities on Penal Policies Facts, Values and Prison Policies - James B Jacobs A Commentary on Zimrig and Tonry The Private and the Public in Penal History - Alex Lichtenstein A Commentary on Zimrig and Tonry Epilogue - Alex Garland The New Iron Cage