Women, crime and punishment in Ireland : life in the nineteenth-century convict prison /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Farrell, Elaine (Elaine Frances) (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Subjects:	Female offenders > Ireland > History > 19th century. Women prisoners > Ireland > History > 19th century. Prisons > Ireland > History > 19th century. Prison discipline > Ireland > History > 19th century. Criminal justice, Administration of > Ireland > History > 19th century. 1800-1899 Electronic books.
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Table of 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