Disorder Contained: Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840 - 1900

ISBN-13: 9781108834551 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str.

Hilary (University of Warwick) Marland

Opis

The first historical study to offer an in-depth exploration of the complex relationship between the prison and mental breakdown.

Recenzje

'a convincing - and at times disturbing - account of the effect of prison discipline on the mental health of inmates in 19th-century English and Irish prisons … Recommended.' P. C. Kennedy, Choice

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Mental disorder and the modern prison in England and Ireland, 1840-1900; 2. The making of the modern prison system: reformation, separation and the mind, 1840-1860; 3. The prison medical officer: Deterrence, dual loyalty and the production of psychiatric expertise, 1860-1895; 4. Criminal or lunatic, prisoner of patient?: Confining insanity in the late nineteenth century; 5. 'He puts on symptoms of incoherence': Feigning and detecting insanity in nineteenth-century prisons; 6. Conclusion: The decline of the separate system, the prisoner patient and enduring legacies; Bibliography; Index.