Women, crime and punishment in Ireland: life in the nineteenth-century convict prison
"This book describes the history of the Irish female convict prison's history, structure and space, the historiography of Irish punishment and imprisonment, and the sources and methods. It outlines how the Irish Convict System developed in the wake of the end of transportation. It explores...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge New York Port Melbourne New Delhi Singapore
Cambridge University Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
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| Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. UB: KB 21 A 1007 |
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| Summary: | "This book describes the history of the Irish female convict prison's history, structure and space, the historiography of Irish punishment and imprisonment, and the sources and methods. It outlines how the Irish Convict System developed in the wake of the end of transportation. It explores the aims and motivations of the Convict Directors who headed the System, and demonstrates how the approach won immediate praise and had widespread international influence. Optimism that the Irish Convict System had solved recidivism, however, was not to last and in the 1870s the establishment of the General Prisons Board initiated further changes. This book also explores the establishment of a singularly female prison managed mostly by female staff. It demonstrates, using quantitative and qualitative evidence, that a stay in Ireland's female convict prison was statistically unusual, even though the women housed therein were in other respects 'ordinary' women"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xii, 291 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9781108839501 9781108813266 |