A Statistical Profile of the Irish Community in Gateshead – The Evidence of the 1851 Census
In: Immigrants & minorities, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 50-81
ISSN: 1744-0521
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In: Immigrants & minorities, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 50-81
ISSN: 1744-0521
In: Immigrants & minorities, Band 18, Heft 2-3, S. 71-93
ISSN: 1744-0521
In: Irish economic and social history: the journal of the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 26-48
ISSN: 2050-4918
In: Labour / Le Travail, Band 25, S. 315
In: Immigrants & minorities, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 28-61
ISSN: 1744-0521
In: Labour / Le Travail, Band 49, S. 327
In: The economic history review, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 139
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: Urban history, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 431-452
ISSN: 1469-8706
ABSTRACT:During the nineteenth century, police, magistrates, reformers and the press noticed a rising tide of juvenile crime. Child-stripping, the crime of stealing young children's clothes by force or deception, was an activity of this type which caused alarm among contemporaries. As the century progressed, improved policing, urbanization and Irish migration, allied to growing social concern, caused more cases of child-stripping to be noticed. Accounts by Dickens, Mayhew and others characterized child-stripping as an activity indulged in by old women who were able to make money by victimizing the weakest strata of society. However, research in the British Library's digitized newspaper collections as well as in parliamentary papers conclusively demonstrates that child-stripping, far from being the domain of Dickensian crones, was actually perpetrated by older children, notably girls, against children even younger than themselves. Despite widespread revulsion, which at times approached a 'moral panic' prompted by the nature of the crime, progressive attitudes largely prevailed with most child-stripping children being sent to reformatories or industrial schools in the hope of reforming their behaviour. This article thus conforms with Foucauldian notions of the switch from physical to mental punishments and aligns with the Victorians' invention of children as a category of humanity that could be saved.
This multi-disciplinary portrayal and analysis of the Protestant tradition in Ireland examines Protestant contributions to literature, culture, religion and politics. It also assesses Protestant authors, churches, Orange Order, Unionist Parties and Ulster loyalism
In: Immigrants & minorities, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 87-112
ISSN: 1744-0521
In: Immigrants & minorities, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 103-132
ISSN: 1744-0521