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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 penal history and theory to make a case for Ireland’s wider theoretical relevance.
Together, these chapters show in rich detail the trends and debates that have surround patterns of punishment in Ireland since the formation of the State in 1922. However, by being about twentieth century Irish penal history, the volume inherently foregrounds often absent perspectives in criminology and punishment, such as gender, postcoloniality, religion, rurality, and carcerality beyond the criminal justice system. This is more than a collection of Irish criminology, therefore; the social analysis of Irish penal history is undertaken as a contribution towards southernising criminology. The authors each seek to engage criminology in a wider epistemological re-imagining of what is meant by punitiveness, penal culture, and 'Anglophone' penal history.
Opening up new avenues of exploration and collaboration, and showing how researchers might look beyond the usual problems, refine the mainstream trends, and rework the obvious questions, this collection demonstrates how the Irish perspective remains relevant for international researchers interested in punishment and history.
Show moreThis 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 penal history and theory to make a case for Ireland’s wider theoretical relevance.
Together, these chapters show in rich detail the trends and debates that have surround patterns of punishment in Ireland since the formation of the State in 1922. However, by being about twentieth century Irish penal history, the volume inherently foregrounds often absent perspectives in criminology and punishment, such as gender, postcoloniality, religion, rurality, and carcerality beyond the criminal justice system. This is more than a collection of Irish criminology, therefore; the social analysis of Irish penal history is undertaken as a contribution towards southernising criminology. The authors each seek to engage criminology in a wider epistemological re-imagining of what is meant by punitiveness, penal culture, and 'Anglophone' penal history.
Opening up new avenues of exploration and collaboration, and showing how researchers might look beyond the usual problems, refine the mainstream trends, and rework the obvious questions, this collection demonstrates how the Irish perspective remains relevant for international researchers interested in punishment and history.
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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
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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
Lynsey Black is Lecturer in Criminology at the Department of Law, Maynooth University. Her research interests include gender and punishment, the death penalty, and historical and postcolonial criminology.
Louise Brangan is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Criminology at the University of Strathclyde. Her research focuses on penal culture, social history of punishment, penal politics, and the comparative sociology of punishment.
Deirdre Healy is Director of the UCD Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Associate Professor at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin. Her research interests include desistance from crime, community sanctions, and victimisation.
This exciting volume leverages the unique trajectory of Irish
criminology’s 21st century emergence and its distinctive commitment
to historical inquiry to raise important questions for criminology
as a field about what might have been and, moving forward, what
could be. Editors Lynsey Black, Louise Brangan, and Deirdre Healy
invite readers to reconsider assumptions and received theories that
have dominated a field whose tunnel vision for the US and UK has
weakened our historical and criminological imaginations. Instead,
by immersing themselves in the history of criminological theory and
penal practices (broadly construed) of an under-explored nation,
they observe large and small differences that challenge our
conventional expectations and that draw our focus to the importance
of gender, religion, rural settings, and ongoing colonial legacies
for understanding penality and how these considerations can play
different roles from those we’ve come to expect from the standard
national case studies. Histories of Punishment and Social Control
in Ireland is a thus contribution not only to Irish Criminology,
but to both broader Anglophone and global discussions about
criminology, southern criminology, criminological history,
punishment and society.
*Ashley T. Rubin, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of
Hawai‘i*
The Irish Republic, at barely 100 years old, offers an important
new lens onto the history of modern penality and an alternative to
the Anglo-American bias in mainstream criminology. Across twelve
engaging, original chapters, this comprehensive volume builds to a
fascinating story that is greater than the sum of its individual
parts.
*Shadd Maruna, Professor of Criminology, Queen’s University
Belfast*
The collection is an important showcase for Irish historical
criminology ... More than that, it sketches possible approaches to
histories designated as peripheral because they do not meet the
standards or fit the concepts that dominate Anglophone
criminology.
*Máiréad Enright, Critical Social Policy*
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