Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland

The role of religion was pivotal in shaping how women were punished in postcolonial Ireland. The new state used the Catholic Church to establish a separate system of confinement, a shadow penal regime for women, which drew its inmates from within a newly recognized threat to the nation. Drawing on M...

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Main Author: Black, Lynsey (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2025
In: Theoretical criminology
Year: 2025, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 161-178
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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