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Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland
Elaine Farrell
其他書名
Life in the Nineteenth-Century Convict Prison
出版Cambridge University Press, 2020-10
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / IrelandSocial Science / CriminologySocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Women's StudiesSocial Science / Penology
ISBN11088395099781108839501
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=i9X7DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.