Criminal justice history : themes and controversies from pre-independence Ireland / edited by Ian O'Donnell and Finbarr McAuley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Donnell, Ian.

McAuley, Finbarr.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal justice, Administration of--Ireland--History--19th century.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Criminal justice, Administration of--Ireland--History--18th century.

Criminology--Ireland--History--19th century.

Criminology.

History.

Ireland.

Criminology--Ireland--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, 2003.

Contents:

Crime and Society

1 How violent was eighteenth-century Ireland? / Neal Garnham 19

2 'A most inhuman and barbarous piece of villainy': an exploration of the crime of rape in eighteenth-century Ireland / James Kelly 35

3 Mad, not bad: crime, mental disorder and gender in nineteenth-century Ireland / Pauline Prior 66

4 The prevention and punishment of crime / Thomas Molony 83

Policing

5 The Irish police experiment: the beginnings of modern police in the British Isles, 1785-95 / Stanley Palmer 98

6 The constabulary and the criminal justice system in nineteenth-century Ireland / Ian Bridgeman 113

7 The policeman's lot was not a happy one: duty, discipline, pay and conditions in the Dublin Metropolitan Police, c.1838-45 / Nigel Cochrane 142

8 Policing famine Ireland / W.J. Lowe 156

Penal Innovation

9 Ireland's penitentiary, 1820-31: an experiment that failed / Henry Heaney 175

10 Mountjoy opens: the moral sewer closes / Tim Carey 185

11 Sir Walter Crofton and the Irish or intermediate system of prison discipline / Elizabeth Dooley 196

12 Irish inebriate reformatories, 1899-1920: an experiment in coercion / George Bretherton 214.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1851827684

OCLC:

52395808