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Between Prison and Probation: Intermediate Punishments in a Rational Sentencing System

Around the state prisons are jammed to capability, and in severe circumstances, barges and cellular houses are used to stem the overflow. Probation officials in a few towns have caseloads of 2 hundred and more--hardly a viable variety of offenders to trace and supervise. And with approximately 1000000 humans in legal and detention center, and and a part million on probation, it truly is transparent we're experiencing a problem in our penal approach.

Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of His Time (Oxford English Monographs)

This research specializes in Louis MacNeice's inventive and significant engagement with different Irish poets in the course of his lifetime. It attracts on broad archival study to discover the formerly unrecognized quantity of the poet's touch with Irish literary mores and networks. Poetic dialogues with contemporaries together with F.

Literature and the Irish Famine 1845-1919 (Oxford Historical Monographs)

The impression of the Irish famine of 1845-1852 was once unprecedented in either political and mental phrases. the results of famine-related mortality and emigration have been devastating, within the box of literature a minimum of in different parts. during this incisive new research, Melissa Fegan explores the famine's legacy to literature, tracing it within the paintings of latest writers and their successors, all the way down to 1919.

English Clandestine Satire, 1660-1702

Within the first entire survey of this substantial box, Harold Love considers the connection of the lampoon to gossip, how one may build a poetics of the style, and the way clandestine satire reached and was once acquired by means of its readers. developing 3 basic different types of "court," "Town" and "state" lampooning, Love argues that faraway from being the made of remoted disaffection, such a lot satire was once the paintings of a circle of well-known poets, often working in collaboration.