TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cox,Catherine
AU  - Marland,Hilary
TI  - Disorder contained: mental breakdown and the modern prison in England and Ireland, 1840-1900 
SN  - 9781108993586 (ebook)
AV  - RC451.4.P68 C695 2022
U1  - 365/.608740941 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - Mental health
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Mentally ill prisoners
KW  - Ireland
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Mar 2022); Open Access
N2  - Disorder Contained is the first historical account of the complex relationship between prison discipline and mental breakdown in England and Ireland. Between 1840 and 1900 the expansion of the modern prison system coincided with increased rates of mental disorder among prisoners, exacerbated by the introduction of regimes of isolation, deprivation and hard labour. Drawing on a range of archival and printed sources, the authors explore the links between different prison regimes and mental distress, examining the challenges faced by prison medical officers dealing with mental disorder within a system that stressed discipline and punishment and prisoners' own experiences of mental illness. The book investigates medical officers' approaches to the identification, definition, management and categorisation of mental disorder in prisons, and varied, often gendered, responses to mental breakdown among inmates. The authors also reflect on the persistence of systems of punishment that often aggravate rather than alleviate mental illness in the criminal justice system up to the current day. This title is also available as Open Access
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108993586
ER  -