Europe, Criminology, 18th century, 19th century, Administration, Criminal Justice, History, Ireland 

"This book comprises selected essays on issues in crime and punishment prior to the foundation of the State. A detailed biography is provided to make available the most important material published between 1922 and 2002." - Voila 

Content:

1. How violent was eighteenth-century Ireland? / Neal Garnham -- 2. 'A most inhuman and barbarous piece of villainy': an exploration of the crime of rape in eighteenth-century Ireland / James Kelly -- 3. Mad, not bad: crime, mental disorder and gender in nineteenth-century Ireland / Pauline Prior -- 4. The prevention and punishment of crime / Thomas Molony -- 5. The Irish police experiment: the beginnings of modern police in the British Isles, 1785-95 / Stanley Palmer -- 6. The constabulary and the criminal justice system in nineteenth-century Ireland / Ian Bridgeman -- 7. The policeman's lot was not a happy one: duty, discipline, pay and conditions in the Dublin Metropolitan Police, c.1838-45 / Nigel Cochrane -- 8. Policing famine Ireland / W.J. Lowe -- 9. Ireland's penitentiary, 1820-31: an experiment that failed / Henry Heaney -- 10. Mountjoy opens: the moral sewer closes / Tim Carey -- 11. Sir Walter Crofton and the Irish or intermediate system of prison discipline / Elizabeth Dooley -- 12. Irish inebriate reformatories, 1899-1920: an experiment in coercion / George Bretherton. 

Includes biographical references (p. 233-237) and index.
Categorized by publisher, then author, then date.