27%OFF
Coercive Confinement in Post-Independence Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents
Eoin Sullivan
€ 25.99
€ 19.04
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Coercive Confinement in Post-Independence Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents
Paperback. Provides an overview of the incarceration of tens of thousands of men, women and children during the first fifty years of Irish independence. Psychiatric hospitals, mother and baby homes, Magdalen homes, Reformatory and Industrial schools, prisons and Borstal formed a network of institutions of coercive confinement integral to the emerging state. Num Pages: 324 pages, Tables, black & white|Graphs. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 518.
This book provides an overview of the incarceration of tens of thousands of men, women and children during the first fifty years of Irish independence. Psychiatric hospitals, mother and baby homes, Magdalen homes, reformatory and industrial schools, prisons and borstal formed a network of institutions of coercive confinement that was integral to the emerging state. The book, now available in paperback after performing superbly in hardback, provides a wealth of contemporaneous accounts of what life was like within these austere and forbidding places as well as offering a compelling explanation for the longevity of the system and the reasons for ... Read more
This book provides an overview of the incarceration of tens of thousands of men, women and children during the first fifty years of Irish independence. Psychiatric hospitals, mother and baby homes, Magdalen homes, reformatory and industrial schools, prisons and borstal formed a network of institutions of coercive confinement that was integral to the emerging state. The book, now available in paperback after performing superbly in hardback, provides a wealth of contemporaneous accounts of what life was like within these austere and forbidding places as well as offering a compelling explanation for the longevity of the system and the reasons for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719095450
SKU
9780719095450
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Eoin Sullivan
Eoin O’Sullivan is Head of the School of Social Work and Social Policy and Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin|Ian O’Donnell is Professor of Criminology at University College Dublin and Adjunct Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford -- .
Reviews for Coercive Confinement in Post-Independence Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents
Most of these people were simply locked up in state institutions, creating a shameful legacy that is only now being dragged into the light. Coercive Confinement in Ireland is a valuable contribution to that process., Andrew Lynch, Sunday Business Post|Some of the documents reproduced here give a powerful insight into the social mores of the time., Andrew Lynch, Sunday Business ... Read more