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

A major study into mental disorder in English and Irish prisons between 1840 and 1900, Disorder Contained investigates the relationship between prison regimes and mental distress, the complex role of prison medical officers in identifying and mediating mental illness and prisoners' experiences of mental breakdown.

List of contents

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.

Summary

A major study into mental disorder in English and Irish prisons between 1840 and 1900, Disorder Contained investigates the relationship between prison regimes and mental distress, the complex role of prison medical officers in identifying and mediating mental illness and prisoners' experiences of mental breakdown.

Foreword

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

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Cox, Catherine (University College Dublin) Cox, Catherine (University College Dublin) Marland Cox, Cox Catherine, Hilary Marland, Hilary (University of Warwick) Marland, Marland Hilary
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2024
• EAN: 9781108995191
• ISBN: 978-1-108-99519-1
• No. of pages: 315
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; MEDICAL / History, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Medicine, Penology and punishment, Prisons