Transitional justice and legacies of state violence
- Submitting institution
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University of Lincoln
- Unit of assessment
- 20 - Social Work and Social Policy
- Output identifier
- 15295
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415826242
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- Yes
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book synthesises archival material with in-depth interviews with former political detainees in Northern Ireland. Historical accounts of violence in detention (1969-1985) were collected and authors of those accounts traced. This book uniquely examines the motivation and consequences of making public accounts of state violence. It explores: the lived impact of legal constructions of torture; notions of contested narratives; links between gender and “speaking out” about suffering, and; revealing as healing. It considers the impact of state discourses on those making public allegations of human rights abuses. The conclusions illustrate issues of making personal experiences part of contested public histories.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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