Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland: Perspectives from a Periphery

This edited collection highlights the importance of Ireland in mainstream Anglophone theories of punitiveness and penal transformation,addressing the deficit by bringing together leading scholars on Irish penal history and theory. It explores trends and debates in Irish penal history,foregrounding absent perspectives such as gender,postcoloniality,religion,rurality,and carcerality. The authors aim to engage criminology in a wider epistemological re-imagining of punitiveness,penal culture,and Anglophone penal history,opening up new avenues for exploration and collaboration.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 23 August 2022
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

This comprehensive volume presents an Open Access Chapter, shedding light on Ireland's often overlooked role within mainstream Anglophone theories of punitiveness and penal transformation. By bringing together esteemed scholars in Irish penal history and theory, the edited collection aims to rectify this deficiency and argue for Ireland's broader theoretical significance. Through a detailed exploration of punishment patterns in Ireland since the State's formation in 1922, the chapters showcase the trends and debates that have shaped the country's penal landscape. However, by focusing on twentieth-century Irish penal history, the volume inherently highlights the often marginalized perspectives in criminology and punishment, including gender, postcoloniality, religion, rurality, and carcerality beyond the criminal justice system. This volume transcends mere collections of Irish criminology, as it undertakes a social analysis of Irish penal history as a contribution to the Southernization of criminology. The authors of each chapter strive to engage criminology in a profound epistemological re-imagining of concepts such as punitiveness, penal culture, and Anglophone penal history. By opening up new avenues for exploration and collaboration, the collection demonstrates how the Irish perspective remains relevant and valuable for international researchers interested in punishment and history.

Weight: 580g
Dimension: 159 x 238 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800436077