Histories of punishment and social control in Ireland : perspectives from a periphery

This volume contains an Open Access Chapter As a peripheral state within English-speaking criminology, Ireland is often overlooked in mainstream Anglophone theories of punitiveness and penal transformation. This edited collection addresses this deficit by bringing together leading scholars on Irish...

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Other Authors Black, Lynsey (Editor), Brangan, Louise (Editor), Healy, Deirdre (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
SeriesPerspectives on crime, law and justice in the global south
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781800436084
DOI10.1108/9781800436060
Physical Description1 online resource (400 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Beyond criminal justice
  • Chapter 1. The past in the present: A historical perspective on probation work at the intersection between the penal voluntary and criminal justice sectors / Deirdre Healy and Louise Kennefick
  • Chapter 2. 'Straightening crooked souls': Psychology and children in custody in 1950s and 1960s Ireland / Fiachra Byrne and Catherine Cox OPEN ACCESS
  • Chapter 3. 'Coercive confinement': An idea whose time has come? / Ian O'Donnell and Eoin O'Sullivan
  • Chapter 4. A certain class of justice: Ireland's magdalenes / Katherine O'Donnell
  • Chapter 5. Ireland's 'historical' abuse inquiries and the secrecy of records and archives / Maeve O'Rourke
  • Part II. Rethinking crime and punishment
  • Chapter 6. Against hibernian exceptionalism / Louise Brangan
  • Chapter 7. Capital punishment and postcolonialism in Ireland / Lynsey Black
  • Chapter 8. The ultimate sacrifice: Irish police (gardaí) murdered in the line of duty, 1922-2020 / Liam O'Callaghan, David M. Doyle, Diarmuid Griffin, and Muiread Murphy
  • Chapter 9. Gender, punishment and violence in Ireland's revolution 1919-23 / Linda Connolly
  • Chapter 10. Histories of penal oversight / Mary Rogan
  • Chapter 11. "nothing to say?" prisoners and the penal past / Cormac Behan
  • Chapter 12. Peripheral: Women's imprisonment in twentieth-century Ireland / Christina Quinlan.