Elaine Farrell

Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland

Life in the Nineteenth-Century Convict Prison

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers an intimate insight into women's experiences of the criminal justice system across urban and rural post-Famine Ireland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781108839501
• ISBN-10: 1108839509
• Artikelnr.: 59546201

Autorenporträt

Elaine Farrell is Senior Lecturer in History at Queen's University Belfast where her research focuses on gender, crime and punishment, and social relations. She is the author of A Most Diabolical Deed: Infanticide and Irish Society, 1850-1900 (2013) which was awarded the National University of Ireland Publication Prize in 2015.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: 'Another generation of jail-birds'
1. 'A powerful engine in reforming the prisoner': the prison framework and the convict body and mind
2. 'A strange medley of character do these prisoners' friends present': family ties
3. 'Even in prison, they have those extreme friendships, antipathies, and jealousies': convict relationships
4. 'At first she refused to say how she got it': networks of acquisition
5. 'I will be very desolate leaving prison': liberation
Conclusion: 'I think of the time that you and myself ust [used] to be to gether'
Bibliography
Index.