Elaine Farrell

Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland (eBook, PDF)

Life in the Nineteenth-Century Convict Prison

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on women's relationships, decisions and agency, this is the first study of women's experiences in a nineteenth-century Irish prison for serious offenders. Showcasing the various crimes for which women were incarcerated in the post-Famine period, from repeated theft to murder, Elaine Farrell examines inmate files in close detail in order to understand women's lives before, during and after imprisonment. By privileging case studies and individual narratives, this innovative study reveals imprisoned women's relationships with each other, with the staff employed to manage and control them, and with their relatives, spouses, children and friends who remained on the outside. In doing so, Farrell illuminates the hardships many women experienced, their poverty and survival strategies, as well as their responsibilities, obligations, and decisions. Incorporating women's own voices, gleaned from letters and prison files, this intimate insight into individual women's lives in an Irish prison sheds new light on collective female experiences across urban and rural post-Famine Ireland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108880893
• Artikelnr.: 66192218

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.