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Pacifying the Homeland

Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision

By: Brendan McQuade

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Pacifying the Homeland

Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision

By: Brendan McQuade

The United States has poured over a billion dollars into a network of interagency intelligence centers called “fusion centers.” These centers were ostensibly set up to prevent terrorism, but politicians, the press, and policy advocates have criticized them for failing on this account. So why do these security systems persist? Pacifying the Homeland travels inside the secret world of intelligence fusion, looks beyond the apparent failure of fusion centers, and reveals a broader shift away from mass incarceration and toward a more surveillance- and police-intensive system of social regulation. Provided with unprecedented access to domestic intelligence centers, Brendan McQuade uncovers how the institutionalization of intelligence fusion enables decarceration without fully addressing the underlying social problems at the root of mass incarceration. The result is a startling analysis that contributes to the debates on surveillance, mass incarceration, and policing and challenges readers to see surveillance, policing, mass incarceration, and the security state in an entirely new light.

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University of California Press

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0520299752

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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II

Control

By: Brendan O'Leary

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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II

Control

By: Brendan O'Leary

This landmark synthesis of political science and historical institutionalism is a detailed study of antagonistic ethnic majoritarianism. Northern Ireland was coercively created through a contested partition in 1920. Subsequently Great Britain compelled Sinn Féin's leaders to rescind the declaration of an Irish Republic, remain within the British Empire, and grant the Belfast Parliament the right to secede. If it did so, a commission would consider modifying the new border. The outcome, however, was the formation of two insecure regimes, North and South, both of which experienced civil war, while the boundary commission was subverted. In the North a control system organized the new majority behind a dominant party that won all elections to the Belfast parliament until its abolition in 1972. The Ulster Unionist Party successfully disorganized Northern nationalists and Catholics. Bolstered by the 'Specials,' a militia created from the Ulster Volunteer Force, this system displayed a pathological version of the Westminster model of democracy, which may reproduce one-party dominance, and enforce national, ethnic, religious, and cultural discrimination. How the Unionist elite improvised this control regime, and why it collapsed under the impact of a civil rights movement in the 1960s, take center-stage in this second volume of A Treatise on Northern Ireland. The North's trajectory is paired and compared with the Irish Free State's incremental decolonization and restoration of a Republic. Irish state-building, however, took place at the expense of the limited prospect of persuading Ulster Protestants that Irish reunification was in their interests, or consistent with their identities. Northern Ireland was placed under British direct rule in 1972 while counter-insurgency practices applied elsewhere in its diminishing empire were deployed from 1969 with disastrous consequences. On January 1 1973, however, the UK and Ireland joined the then European Economic Community. Many hoped that would help end conflict in and over Northern Ireland. Such hopes were premature. Northern Ireland appeared locked in a stalemate of political violence punctuated by failed political initiatives.

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Oxford University Press

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019256630X

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A Treatise on Northern Ireland

By: Brendan O'Leary

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A Treatise on Northern Ireland

By: Brendan O'Leary

The second volume of the definitive political history of Northern Ireland.

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0198830572

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The Politics of Antagonism

Understanding Northern Ireland

By: Brendan O'Leary,John McGarry

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The Politics of Antagonism

Understanding Northern Ireland

By: Brendan O'Leary,John McGarry

Written during the Northern Ireland peace process and just before the Good Friday Agreement, The Politics of Antagonism sets out to answer questions such as why successive British Governments failed to reach a power-sharing settlement in Northern Ireland and what progress has been made with the Anglo-Irish Agreement. O'Leary and McGarry assess these topics in the light of past historical and social-science scholarship, in interviews of key politicians, and in an examination of political violence since 1969. The result is a book which points to feasible strategies for a democratic settlement in the Northern Ireland question and which allows today's scholars and students to analyse approaches to Northern Ireland from the perspective of the recent past.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474287786

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9781474287784

Shadows of Doubt

Stereotypes, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice

By: Brendan O'Flaherty,Rajiv Sethi

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Shadows of Doubt

Stereotypes, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice

By: Brendan O'Flaherty,Rajiv Sethi

Shadows of Doubt reveals how deeply stereotypes distort our interactions, shape crime, and deform the criminal justice system. If you’re a robber, how do you choose your victims? As a police officer, how afraid are you of the young man you’re about to arrest? As a judge, do you think the suspect in front of you will show up in court if released from pretrial detention? As a juror, does the defendant seem guilty to you? Your answers may depend on the stereotypes you hold, and the stereotypes you believe others hold. In this provocative, pioneering book, economists Brendan O’Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi explore how stereotypes can shape the ways crimes unfold and how they contaminate the justice system through far more insidious, pervasive, and surprising paths than we have previously imagined. Crime and punishment occur under extreme uncertainty. Offenders, victims, police officers, judges, and jurors make high-stakes decisions with limited information, under severe time pressure. With compelling stories and extensive data on how people act as they try to commit, prevent, or punish crimes, O’Flaherty and Sethi reveal the extent to which we rely on stereotypes as shortcuts in our decision making. Sometimes it’s simple: Robbers tend to target those they stereotype as being more compliant. Other interactions display a complex and sometimes tragic interplay of assumptions: “If he thinks I’m dangerous, he might shoot. I’ll shoot first.” Shadows of Doubt shows how deeply stereotypes are implicated in the most controversial criminal justice issues of our time, and how a clearer understanding of their effects can guide us toward a more just society.

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Harvard University Press

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0674240170

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9780674240179

Exiles and Islanders

The Irish Settlers of Prince Edward Island

By: Brendan O'Grady

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Exiles and Islanders

The Irish Settlers of Prince Edward Island

By: Brendan O'Grady

The first comprehensive account of the Irish settlers of Prince Edward Island.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773527230

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9780773527232

Memory Improved

Reading and Memory Enhancement Across the Life Span Through Strategic Text Structures

By: Bonnie J.F. Meyer,Carole J. Young,Brendan J. Bartlett

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Memory Improved

Reading and Memory Enhancement Across the Life Span Through Strategic Text Structures

By: Bonnie J.F. Meyer,Carole J. Young,Brendan J. Bartlett

This unique text presents a systematic study of a proven method for increasing the memory and reading comprehension of older adults by using a program based on discourse processing. The program facilitates the encoding and retrieval of information through a reading strategy plan utilizing top-level structures in the text. The authors of this volume provide student and teacher training manuals for the program as well as a review of the literature, data tables and graphs; an extensive bibliography; and five 1 1/2 hour sessions to improve memory and reading comprehension.

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Psychology Press

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1317785789

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9781317785781

A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume III

Consociation and Confederation

By: Brendan O'Leary

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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume III

Consociation and Confederation

By: Brendan O'Leary

The third volume of the definitive political history of Northern Ireland. The Good Friday Agreement deserved the attention the world gave it, even if it was not always accurately understood. After its ratification in two referendums, for the first time in history political institutions throughout the island of Ireland rested upon the freely given assent of majorities of all the peoples on the island. It marked, it was hoped, the full political decolonization of Ireland. Whether Ireland would reunify, or whether Northern Ireland remain in union with Great Britain now rested on the will of the people of Ireland, North and South respectively: a complex mode of power-sharing addressed the self-determination dispute. The concluding volume of Brendan O'Leary's A Treatise on Northern Ireland explains the making of this settlement, and the many failed initiatives that preceded it under British direct rule. Long-term structural and institutional changes and short-term political maneuvers are given their due in this lively but comprehensive assessment. The Anglo-Irish Agreement is identified as the political tipping point, itself partially the outcome of the hunger strikes of 1980-81 that had prevented the criminalization of republicanism. Until 2016 the prudent judgment seemed to be that the Good Friday Agreement had broadly worked, eventually enabling Sinn Féin and the DUP to share power, with intermittent attention from the sovereign governments. Cultural Catholics appeared content if not in love with the Union with Great Britain. But the decision to hold a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union has collaterally damaged and destabilized the Good Friday Agreement. That, in turn, has shaped the UK's tortured exit negotiations with the European Union. In appraising these recent events and assessing possible futures, readers will find O'Leary's distinctive angle of vision clear, sharp, unsentimental, and unsparing of reputations, in keeping with the mastery of the historical panoramas displayed throughout this treatise.

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Oxford University Press

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0192566334

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9780192566331

Unconventional Monetary Policies in Emerging Markets and Frontier Countries

By: Chiara Fratto,Brendan Harnoys Vannier,MissBorislava Mircheva,David de Padua,Ms.Helene Poirson Ward

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Unconventional Monetary Policies in Emerging Markets and Frontier Countries

By: Chiara Fratto,Brendan Harnoys Vannier,MissBorislava Mircheva,David de Padua,Ms.Helene Poirson Ward

The COVID-19 crisis induced an unprecedented launch of unconventional monetary policy through asset purchase programs (APPs) by emerging market and developing economies. This paper presents a new dataset of APP announcements and implementation from March until August 2020 for 27 emerging markets and 8 small advanced economies. APPs’ effects on bond yields, exchange rates, equities, and debt spreads are estimated using different methodologies. The results confirm that APPs were successful in significantly reducing bond yields in EMDEs, and these effects were stronger than those of policy rate cuts, suggesting that such UMP could be important tools for EMDEs during financial market stress.

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International Monetary Fund

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1513567217

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Pacifying the Homeland

Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision

By: Brendan McQuade

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Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision

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After Prisons?

Freedom, Decarceration, and Justice Disinvestment

By: William G. Martin,Joshua M. Price

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After Prisons?

Freedom, Decarceration, and Justice Disinvestment

By: William G. Martin,Joshua M. Price

As recently as five years ago mass incarceration was widely considered to be a central, permanent feature of the political and social landscape. The number of people in U.S. prisons is still without historic parallel anywhere in the world or in U.S. history. But in the last few years, the population has decreased, in some states by almost a third. A broad consensus is emerging to reduce prison rolls. Politicians have called for repealing the harshest sentencing laws of the war on drugs, abolishing mandatory minimums and closing correctional facilities. Does the decrease in the prison population herald the dismantling of mass incarceration? This book provides an answer. Drawing on original research from across New York State, the contributors argue that while massive decarceration is taking place, the outcome to date is not the one wished for by reformers, namely a more just system. While drug law reform is clearly upon us, for example, a moral panic about heroin addiction and phantom meth labs has recently reached a fever pitch. As the penitentiary population drops and prisons close, the number of people in jail has swelled. New intelligence-led policing, and the rise of a reentry industry together have led to more surveillance and less social justice. Together these developments lead to justice disinvestment as the state sheds direct responsibility for the criminal justice system to the private and non-profit sector, while it extends its reach through new forms of community-based supervision, surveillance and policing into poor neighborhoods and communities of color. Celebration may be premature, in other words. Having endowed a group that is already disproportionately poor and people of color with the stigma of criminality, the state has left the formerly incarcerated and their communities to their fate. The future we face appears to be neither emancipatory reform nor simply the continuation of past mass incarceration. The challenge of freedom, on a scale not seen since the Reconstruction, remains before us.

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Lexington Books

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1498539165

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Pacifying the Homeland

Pacifying the Homeland

A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II

A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II

A Treatise on Northern Ireland

A Treatise on Northern Ireland

The Politics of Antagonism

The Politics of Antagonism

Shadows of Doubt

Shadows of Doubt

Exiles and Islanders

Exiles and Islanders

Memory Improved

Memory Improved

A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume III

A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume III

Unconventional Monetary Policies in Emerging Markets and Frontier Countries

Unconventional Monetary Policies in Emerging Markets and Frontier Countries

Pacifying the Homeland

Pacifying the Homeland

After Prisons?

After Prisons?

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