1. The Emergence of the Loyalist Paramilitary Organisations -- 2. Political Crime and Criminalisation -- 3. Internment and the Introduction of Special Category Status -- 4. Common Ground in Long Kesh -- 5. The End of Special Category Status -- 6. Hunger Strike -- Interviews with Ex-prisoners, 1986-1990 -- Interviews with Loyalist Ex-life-sentence Prisoners, 1996-1997 -- Interviews with Ex-prison Officers, 1998
Summary
Based on in-depth interviews with loyalist and republican prisoners, as well as with prison officers and 'ordinary' criminals, Defenders or Criminals is an indictment of British criminalisation policy in Northern Ireland from 1976 to 1981, the year of the hunger strikes. Revealing the brutal and brutalising H-Block regime in disturbing detail, the evidence is all the more damning in coming mainly from loyalist prisoners and from prison officers
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-183) and index
