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1. Irish Political Prisoners 1920-1962

   By Sean McConville

   Irish Political Prisoners, 1920-1962 is the second in a three-volume set which offers a detailed and gripping overview of the political use of imprisonment in modern Ireland. Covering the period from the formation of the Northern Ireland state to the release of the last border campaign prisoners,...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Routledge Guide to Interviewing

   Oral History, Social Enquiry and Investigation

   By Sean McConville, Anna Bryson

   The Routledge Guide to Interviewing sets out a well-tested and practical approach and methodology: what works, difficulties and dangers to avoid and key questions which must be answered before you set out. Background methodological issues and arguments are considered and drawn upon but the focus is...

   To Be Published October 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Irish Political Prisoners 1848–1922

   Theatres of War

   By Sean McConville

   This is the most wide-ranging study ever published of political violence and the punishment of Irish political offenders from 1848 to the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922. Those who chose violence to advance their Irish nationalist beliefs ranged from gentlemen revolutionaries to those who...

   Published June 26th 2005 by Routledge
4. The Use of Punishment

   Edited by Sean McConville

   In recent decades there has been a vast increase in the use of imprisonment and penal supervision, and to many this development appears to be qualitatively as well as quantitatively different. The causes of this development, its consequences and future course form the main point of departure for...

   Published August 31st 2003 by Willan
5. Prison Architecture

   By Leslie Fairweather, Sean McConville

   Current and future prison designs are examined in this book, within the government's prison building programme, and the confines of current penal philosophies and legislation. America has led the way in prison design, with two main types of architecture predominating: radial layouts (outside cells...

   Published August 7th 2000 by Routledge
6. English Local Prisons, 1860-1900

   Next Only to Death

   By Sean McConville, Professor Sean Mcconville

   The local prisons of the latter half of the nineteenth century refined systems of punishment so harsh that one judge considered the maximum penalty of two years local imprisonment to be the most severe punishment known to English law: "next only to death". This work examines how private perceptions...

   Published November 30th 1994 by Routledge