| Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland: Life in the Nineteenth-Century Convict Prison Contributor(s): Farrell, Elaine (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108839509 ISBN-13: 9781108839501 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $97.85 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Penology - History | Europe - Ireland |
| Dewey: 365.430 |
| LCCN: 2020018100 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.27 lbs) 330 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |