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The hoods

Heather Hamill

2010,2011

Overview

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 criminal deterrence. Why do hoods behave in ways that invite violent punishment? InThe Hoods, Heather Hamill explains why this informal system of policing and punishment developed and endured and why such harsh punishments as beatings, \"kneecappings,\" 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 \"manfully\" take punishment yet remained undeterred. A rare combination of frontline research and pioneering ideas,The Hoodshas important implications for our fundamental understanding of crime and punishment.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: 1DBKN / Anti-social behaviour / Attempt / Belfast / Blanket protest / Boredom / Burglary / Community development / Community service / Corporal punishment / Crime / Criminal justice / Criminal record / Criminals / Criminology / Curfew / Drinking / Employment / Exclusion / Extortion / Feud / Gang / Hooding / Housing development / Hunger strike / Ideology / Illegal drug trade / Imprisonment / Indication (medicine) / Informant / Internment / Interrogation / Intimidation / Irish National Liberation Army / Irish Republican Army (1922–69) / JHB / JKV / JPWF / Juvenile delinquency / Juvenile delinquents / Kneecapping / law enforcement / Loyalist Volunteer Force / Misdemeanor / Northern Ireland / Obstacle / Offenders / Orange Order / Organizational structure / Organized crime / Paramilitary / Paramilitary forces / Paramilitary organizations / Police / Police Service of Northern Ireland / Political party / Political Science / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement / Politician / Prediction / Provisional Irish Republican Army / Punishment / Racket (crime) / Red Hand Commando / Respondent / Restorative justice / Robbery / Sectarianism / Security forces / Sexism / Signaling game / Social Democratic and Labour Party / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban / Sociology / Subculture / Tarring and feathering / The Other Hand / Theft / Toughness / Ulster Defence Association / Ulster Volunteer Force / Unemployment / United Kingdom / University of Oxford / Urban / Vandalism / Violence / Young offender / Youth / Youth wing
• ISBN: 9780691119632, 0691119635, 9781400836734, 1400836735, 9780691180687, 0691180687