Madness and murder
Subtitle: gender, crime and mental disorder in nineteenth-century Ireland
By: Pauline M. Prior ; foreword by Angela Bourke.
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780716529378; 9780716529385
Subjects: Murderers -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.; Mentally ill offenders -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.; Women murderers -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.; Women murderers -- Mental health -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.; Murderers -- Mental health -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.; Crime -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-244) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. The context. Crime and punishment; title: Criminal lunacy; title: Managing crime and mental disorder; title: pt. 2. The stories. Men who killed women; title: Women who killed children; title: Women who killed men; title: Family murders; title: Leaving behind crime and madness; title: Epilogue; title: Appendices. The legal basis for admissions to the Central Criminal Asylum for Ireland, Dundrum, 1850-1900; title: Rules...for regulating the execution of capital sentences in Ireland; title: List of selected statutes on mental disorder and crime; title: Inspectors of Lunacy and senior medical staff at Dundrum 1850-1900.