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Women, crime and punishment in Ireland : life in the nineteenth-century convict prison / Elaine Farrell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farrell, Elaine (Elaine Frances), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Female offenders--Ireland--History--19th century.
- Female offenders.
- Women prisoners--Ireland--History--19th century.
- Women prisoners.
- Prisons--Ireland--History--19th century.
- Prisons.
- Prison discipline--Ireland--History--19th century.
- Prison discipline.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Ireland--History--19th century.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- History.
- Ireland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures, Maps and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: 'Another generation of jail-birds'
- Case Study 1 'The terrible temptation': Mary Enright
- 1 'A powerful engine in reforming the prisoner': The Prison Framework and the Convict Body and Mind
- Case Study 2 'A gang of coiners': The Carroll Family
- 2 'A strange medley of character do these prisoners' friends present': Family Ties
- Case Study 3 'The workhouse girls': Arson in the South Dublin Union
- 3 'Even in prison, they have those extreme friendships, antipathies, and jealousies': Convict Relationships
- Case Study 4 'A person of very superior attainments': Delia Lidwill
- 4 'At first she refused to say how she got it': Networks of Acquisition
- Case Study 5 'A most remote part of the country': Suspected Murder in Mayo
- 5 'I will be very desolate leaving Prison': Liberation
- Conclusion: 'I think of the time that you and myself ust [used] to be to gether'
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 22, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Farrell, Elaine (Elaine Frances). Women, crime and punishment in Ireland
- ISBN:
- 9781108880893
- 1108880894
- 9781108884242
- 1108884245
- Publisher Number:
- 40030154666
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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