RT Book
T1 Killing Time: Life Imprisonment and Parole in Ireland
T2 SpringerLink Bücher
T2 Springer eBook Collection Law and Criminology
A1 Griffin, Diarmuid
LA English
PP Cham
PB Palgrave Macmillan
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1653933895
AB Little is known about life imprisonment and the process of releasing offenders back into the community in Ireland. Addressing this scarcity of information, Griffin’s empirical study examines the legal and policy framework surrounding life imprisonment and parole. Through an analysis of the rationales expressed by parole decision-makers in the exercise of their discretionary power of release, it is revealed that decision-makers view public protection as central to the process. However, the risk of reoffending features amidst an array of other factors that also influence parole outcomes including personal interpretations of the purposes of punishment, public opinion and the political landscape within which parole operates. The findings of this study are employed to provide a rationale for the upward trend in time served by life sentence prisoners prior to release in recent times. With reform of parole now on the political agenda, will a more formal process of release operate to constrain the increase in time served witnessed over the last number of decades or will the upward trajectory continue unabated?
AB Chapter 1. Same Crime, Different Time -- Chapter 2. The Rise of Life Imprisonment -- Chapter 3. The Cycle of Life -- Chapter 4. The Risk Factor -- Chapter 5. Punishment, Public Opinion and Politics -- Chapter 6. The Realities of the Situation -- Chapter 7. Different Process, Same Outcome?
OP 251
CN 364.6209415
SN 9783319726670
K1 Rehabilitation
K1 Crime : Sociological aspects
K1 Criminology and Criminal Justice
K1 Irland : Lebenslange Freiheitsstrafe : Strafaussetzung
DO 10.1007/978-3-319-72667-0