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British Journal of Criminology Advance Access published online on November 29, 2006
British Journal of Criminology, doi:10.1093/bjc/azl090
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Normalization and its Discontents: Constructing the ‘Irreconcilable’ Female Political Prisoner in Northern Ireland

Mary S. Corcoran 1 *

1 School of Criminology, Education, Sociology and Social Work, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, England, UK

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Mary S. Corcoran, E-mail: M.Corcoran{at}crim.keele.ac.uk


  Abstract

This article accounts for the official construction of women political prisoners as the intractable and problematic subjects of political decarceration in Northern Ireland. The discussion firstly locates the processes of penal ‘normalization’ in Northern Ireland in a hegemonic struggle which preceded the managerialist era usually associated with political decarceration. Secondly, it traces the emergence of ideal-typical sites of negotiation and contestation between women political prisoners and the authorities. Thirdly, it utilizes feminist critiques of contemporary penal governmentalities to identify the formation of politico-gendered penal controls, concluding with summary of the era’s punitive excesses with respect to women prisoners.


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