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Understanding Limerick: Social Exclusion and Change
Niamh Hourigan
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Description for Understanding Limerick: Social Exclusion and Change
Paperback. Understanding Limerick is an edited collection featuring contributions from leading Irish scholars in the fields of Sociology, Social Policy, Criminology and Urban Geography. Editor(s): Hourigan, Niamh (University College Cork). Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFFJ; JHB; JKV. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
Understanding Limerick is an edited collection featuring contributions from leading Irish scholars in the fields of Sociology, Social Policy, Criminology and Urban Geography. Limerick city has some of the most severely disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the Republic of Ireland. The city has also experienced a range of problems in relation to organized crime, gangland feuding and community violence. This collection seeks to explore how profound social exclusion and poverty-related criminality emerged in Limerick city. The success of criminal justice, child protection and Regeneration based responses in tackling these problems is examined. Contributors assess what lessons can be learned from Limerick ... Read more
Understanding Limerick is an edited collection featuring contributions from leading Irish scholars in the fields of Sociology, Social Policy, Criminology and Urban Geography. Limerick city has some of the most severely disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the Republic of Ireland. The city has also experienced a range of problems in relation to organized crime, gangland feuding and community violence. This collection seeks to explore how profound social exclusion and poverty-related criminality emerged in Limerick city. The success of criminal justice, child protection and Regeneration based responses in tackling these problems is examined. Contributors assess what lessons can be learned from Limerick ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork
Number of pages
316
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781859184844
SKU
V9781859184844
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About Niamh Hourigan
Niamh Hourigan is a Lecturer and Head of Graduate Studies in Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland. She is General Co-Editor of the Irish Journal of Sociology.
Reviews for Understanding Limerick: Social Exclusion and Change
This book vividly explains how our society, in denying respect to its most disadvantaged citizens, creates the conditions for gangsterism and criminality. Its inequality stupid! - Vincent Browne, Irish Times This book is original, innovative, nuanced and important. It is a major contribution to our understanding of how social exclusion and inequality currently works within late-modern cities. ... Read more