RT Book
T1 Women, crime and punishment in Ireland: life in the nineteenth-century convict prison
A1 Farrell, Elaine
LA English
PP Cambridge New York Port Melbourne New Delhi Singapore
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1696800862
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV6046
SN 9781108839501
SN 9781108813266
K1 Female offenders : Ireland : History : 19th century
K1 Women Prisoners : Ireland : History : 19th century
K1 Prisons : Ireland : History : 19th century
K1 Prison discipline : Ireland : History : 19th century
K1 Criminal justice, Administration : Ireland : History : 19th century
K1 Irland : Weibliche Strafgefangene : Frauenstrafvollzug : Geschichte 1800-1900