TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamill,Heather
TI  - The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast 
SN  - 9780691119632
AV  - HV6949.N67 H36 2018
U1  - 364.94167 23
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Crime
KW  - Northern Ireland
KW  - Belfast
KW  - Criminals
KW  - Juvenile delinquents
KW  - Paramilitary forces
KW  - Punishment
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Criminology
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Catholic paramilitaries
KW  - Catholics
KW  - IRA
KW  - Irish Republican Army
KW  - Loyalist paramilitaries
KW  - Loyalists
KW  - PPAs
KW  - Protestant paramilitaries
KW  - Protestants
KW  - Republicans
KW  - adult males
KW  - antisocial behavior
KW  - antisocial behaviors
KW  - antisocial behaviour
KW  - civil conflict
KW  - community recognition
KW  - conflict
KW  - crime
KW  - criminal deterrence
KW  - delinquency
KW  - deterrence
KW  - extralegal governance
KW  - group acceptance
KW  - hoods' subculture
KW  - hoods
KW  - joyriding
KW  - juvenile delinquency
KW  - offense patterns
KW  - ordinary crime
KW  - paramilitary groups
KW  - paramilitary punishment attacks
KW  - petty offenders
KW  - police
KW  - policing
KW  - political conflict
KW  - politics
KW  - prestige
KW  - punishment
KW  - relationships
KW  - research data
KW  - research methods
KW  - self-destructive behaviors
KW  - signaling game
KW  - status
KW  - statutory criminal justice system
KW  - subculture
KW  - toughness
KW  - violence
KW  - working-class Catholics
KW  - working-class culture
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; One. West Belfast --; Two. The Hoods --; Three. Search for Status --; Four. Signaling Games --; Five. Loyalists --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Glossary of terms --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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? In The 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 Hoods has important implications for our fundamental understanding of crime and punishment
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