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British Journal of Criminology 2007 47(5):779-797; doi:10.1093/bjc/azm025
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The British Journal of Criminology 47:779-797 (2007)
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Risk, Politics and the ‘Scientification’ of Political Judgement

Prisoner Release and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland

Clare D. Dwyer*

* Lecturer in Law, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast, 28 University Square, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK; c.dwyer{at}qub.ac.uk.


  Abstract

Drawing on research in Northern Ireland into the process of release under the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, this article explores the identification and classification of risk in relation to prisoners released early under the Sentences (NI) Act. The main argument is that conflict, post-conflict and transitional conditions expose more starkly the political underpinnings of risk-management strategy and the article demonstrates the particular variant of Politicized Risk Assessment (PRA) recently used in the release of prisoners in Northern Ireland.


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