Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-83950-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Farrell, Elaine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: 'Another Generation of Jail-Birds'; 1. Mary Enright: The Prison Framework and the Convict Body and Mind; 2. The Carroll Family: Family Ties; 3. Arson in the South Dublin Union: Convict Relationships; 4. Delia Lidwill: Networks of Acquisition; 5. Suspected Murder in Mayo: Liberation; Conclusion: 'I Think of the Time that You and Myself Ust to Be to gether'; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Farrell, Elaine
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.