Heather Hamill

Heather Hamill is a sociologist who is currently an associate professor at the University of Oxford, St Cross College. She specializes in the study of crime and extralegal governance. Her book, The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast, about paramilitary punishment attacks in Northern Ireland, won the James Donnelly Sr. Prize for Books in History and Social Sciences, awarded by the American Conference for Irish Studies. According to the award committee:

Hamill's ethnographically-informed analysis of extra-legal punishment in Belfast is social science at its best. She exposes the ways that Catholic and Protestant paramilitary police and punish youth in their own communities and interrogates why such violent social sanctions do not deter "the Hoods." In this way, Hamill's book opens up new terrain in Irish Studies while grounding her conclusions in the cultural and political circumstances of Northern Ireland. It is an extremely well-written academic book that is truly difficult to put down.^[1]

Works

• Gambetta, Diego; Hamill, Heather (2005). Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Customer's Trustworthiness. Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 978-1-61044-235-0.^[2][3][4][5]
• Hamill, Heather (2011). The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-18068-7.^[6][7][8][9]

References

1. "Heather Hamill". Department of Sociology, Oxford University. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
2. Fararo, Thomas J. (3 October 2007). "Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Their Customers' Trustworthiness (review)". Social Forces. 86 (1): 363–364. doi:10.1353/sof.2007.0097. ISSN 1534-7605. S2CID 201762763.
3. Uslaner, Eric M. (1 February 2007). "Book Review: Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Their Customers' Trustworthiness". Work and Occupations. 34 (1): 104–106. doi:10.1177/0730888406296934. ISSN 0730-8884. S2CID 153319299.
4. Jones, RG (2006). "Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Their Customers' Trustworthiness". Personnel Psychology. 59 (1): 274–275.
5. Sztompka, Piotr (2006). "Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Their Customers' Trustworthiness – Diego Gambetta and Heather Hamill". International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 30 (4): 978–979. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2006.00704_7.x. ISSN 1468-2427.
6. "The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast". Times Higher Education (THE). 10 March 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
7. Stout, Brian (1 December 2011). "Hamill, H. (2011).The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast". Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. 5 (4): 380–381. doi:10.1093/police/par041. ISSN 1752-4512.
8. McDonald, Henry. "Beyond the pale: a city underclass bent on anarchy". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
9. Jolicoeur, Jason R. "The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast". Law and Politics Book Review. American Political Science Association. Retrieved 7 January 2020.