Binding: Hardcover
Description: Secret informers are often the biggest threat faced by underground rebel groups which must respond to this challenge in order to survive. Using the IR a as a case - study Penality in the Underground offers a systematic in - depth analysis of this phenomenon providing an empirical and theoretical account of the causes forms functions and effects of the underground response to informers. While superficial media images tend to depict only ruthless killings the book argues - using the lens of Punishment and Society and drawing on rich interviews with IR a members and on archival sources - that groups such as the IR a develop complex systems of punishment and social control in their pursuit of informers. The book demonstrates how such systems are not only a mechanical response to a security problem but are also shaped by other goals risks and imperatives such as maintaining legitimacy projecting a state - like image and supporting governance efforts. This work thus identifies and explains some remarkable features of the IR a's pursuit of informers such as the establishment of 'courts - martial' the granting of 'amnesties' the expansion of social control the productive function of labelling 'treason in asserting sovereignty and the long - term consequences of the issue during transition out of conflict. By exploring the penal logics practices and discourses of armed rebel groups - engaged in direct struggle with the state agencies that normally carry out criminal justice - the book aims to expand the study of punishment and society and demonstrate its utility to the understanding of non - state actors.
Title: Penality In The Underground The Ira's Pursuit Of Informers
Author(s): Dudai Ron (Senior Lecturer At The Department Of Sociology & Anthropology Senior Lecturer At The Department Of Sociology & Anthropology Ben Gurion University Israel)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198759409
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 10/29/2022
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
Category: Criminal Procedure