During the first fifty years of Irish independence, tens of thousands of men, women and children were incarcerated in institutions. 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. This unique volume 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 its ultimate decline....
During the first fifty years of Irish independence, tens of thousands of men, women and children were incarcerated in institutions. Psychiatric hospit...
Explores the appeal of child pornography and its ramifications for criminal justice systems around the world. This book provides a framework for understanding the contemporary nature of this problem, especially the harms it causes, its intimate relationship with technologies and the challenges it poses to law enforcement authorities.
Explores the appeal of child pornography and its ramifications for criminal justice systems around the world. This book provides a framework for under...