Suchergebnisse

1. The convict's story -- 2. What shall we do? -- 3. Statistics and the 'capturing' of crime on paper -- 4. From policeman state to regulatory control -- 5. Talking about crime -- 6. An ethical conversation? -- 7. New digital media -- 8. Impact -- 9. Time, place, and space -- 10. New technologies of police power -- 11. Paperwork, networks, information, connections, and theories -- 12. A just measure of punishment : a fair measure of reformation -- 13. The submerged criminal justice 'state'.

This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its overarching theme is the transformation and convergence of criminal justice systems during a period that saw a broad shift from legal pluralism to the hegemony of state law in the European world and beyond

Women and crime -- Women and punishment -- Women in the prison system -- Women and post-release supervision -- Case studies of criminal women. Amelia Sach -- Violet Watson -- Ann Griffith -- Ann Nicholls -- Eleanor Boniface alias Ann Knight -- Mary Ann Gannon -- Eliza Conner and Mary Leonard -- Ellen Dwyer and Lottie Child -- Emily Swann -- Elizabeth Dillon -- Eva Bebbington -- Julia Smith and Frances Murphy -- Maria Allen and Maria Adams -- Mary Ann Parr -- Mary Hardyman -- Elizabeth Dyer -- Mary Vickers alias 'Slasher' -- Sarah Chiswell -- Sarah Jane Day -- Sarah Tuff alias Sarah Poole -- Susannah Wells alias Watson -- Amelia Layton -- Ann Plowman -- Elizabeth Coppin -- Ellen Risden -- Maria Dibsdale -- Mary Fitzpatrick -- Arabella Matilda Hopton -- Sarah Davies -- Jane Foster -- How to research. Women's crimes -- How to research: women and the 'experience' of imprisonment -- How to research: women convicts and post-sentence supervision -- How to research: criminal women at home -- Conclusion.

Penal Servitude is the first comprehensive study of the convict prison system that housed all those who were sentenced to penal servitude between 1853 and 1948, detailing the administration and evolution of the system, its creation, the building of the prison estate, and the experiences of prisoners and staff within it.