RT Book
T1 Disorder contained: mental breakdown and the modern prison in England and Ireland, 1840-1900
A1 Cox, Catherine 1970-
A2 Marland, Hilary 1958-
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1800109989
AB Disorder Contained is the first historical account of the complex relationship between prison discipline and mental breakdown in England and Ireland. Between 1840 and 1900 the expansion of the modern prison system coincided with increased rates of mental disorder among prisoners, exacerbated by the introduction of regimes of isolation, deprivation and hard labour. Drawing on a range of archival and printed sources, the authors explore the links between different prison regimes and mental distress, examining the challenges faced by prison medical officers dealing with mental disorder within a system that stressed discipline and punishment and prisoners' own experiences of mental illness. The book investigates medical officers' approaches to the identification, definition, management and categorisation of mental disorder in prisons, and varied, often gendered, responses to mental breakdown among inmates. The authors also reflect on the persistence of systems of punishment that often aggravate rather than alleviate mental illness in the criminal justice system up to the current day. This title is also available as Open Access.
OP 303
NO Open Access. - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Mar 2022)
CN 365/.608740941
SN 9781108993586
SN 9781108834551
SN 9781108995191
K1 Prisoners : Mental health : History : 19th century : England
K1 Mentally ill prisoners : History : 19th century : Ireland
K1 Mentally ill prisoners : History : 19th century : England
K1 Prisoners : Mental health : History : 19th century : Ireland
K1 eBook-Cambridge-Gesamt-EBA-2024
DO 10.1017/9781108993586