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.
Author(s): Catherine Cox, Hilary Marland
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 318
Tags: Prisoners: Mental Health; England: History: 19th Century; Prisoners: Mental Health: Ireland: History: 19th Century; Mentally Ill Prisoners: England: History: 19th Century; Mentally Ill Prisoners: Ireland: History: 19th Century; Medical: History
Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Mental Disorder and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840-1900
Institutions of Confinement
The Discipline of Separation and the Prison Cell
Prisons and Their Prisoners
Prison Medical Officers
2 The Making of the Modern Prison System: Reformation, Separation and the Mind, 1840-1860
Rival Prison Regimes: The Silent and Separate Systems
Model Prisons and the Mind
The Dogma of Separation
Chaplains and Medical Officers
Women under the Separate System
Conclusion
3 The Prison Medical Officer: Deterrence, Dual Loyalty and the Production of Psychiatric Expertise, 1860-1895
I The Hardening of Penal Policy and Practices
Diet, Labour and the Separate System of Confinement
'A Servant of the Board'? Medical Officers and Prison Practices and Regimens
II Medical Expertise and Knowledge Production
Medical Management of Mental Disorder in Convict and Local Prisons
Labelling, Taxonomies and Knowledge Production
Conclusion
4 Criminal or Lunatic, Prisoner or Patient?: Confining Insanity in the Late Nineteenth Century
I Provision for Criminal Lunatics and Lunatic Criminals
Accumulating in Prisons and Asylums: Legislative Change and Institutional Provision
Discourses of Guilt and Disease: Psychiatrists, Prison Doctors and Mediating Insanity
II Criminal or Lunatic? Prisoner or Patient?: Places and Practices of Confinement
Removals between Prisons and Asylums
Turf Wars and Claims of Expertise between Prisons and Asylums
Conclusion
5 'He Puts on Symptoms of Incoherence': Feigning and Detecting Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Prisons
Feigning in Prison
Feigning under the Separate System
The Lure of the Asylum and the Prison Doctor as Detective
Mad, Bad and the Benefits of Diagnosis
Conclusion
6 Conclusion: The Decline of the Separate System, the Prisoner Patient and Enduring Legacies
Prison Psychiatry and Campaigns for Reform
'We Are Recreating Bedlam': The Crisis in Prison Mental Health Services
Bibliography
Primary Sources
National Archives of Ireland (NAI)
The National Archives (TNA)
National Library of Ireland
Berkshire Record Office (BRO)
Dublin City Archives
Lancashire Archives
Liverpool Record Office (LRO)
London Metropolitan Archives (LMA)
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Heritage Centre
Wakefield County Record Office
Wellcome Library
Wolfson Centre for Archival Research, Birmingham Central Library
Official Papers
Statutes
Annual Reports
Rules
Commissions, Reports and Inquiries
Medical Journals
Periodicals
Newspapers
Primary Printed
Secondary Sources
Books
Articles and Chapters in Books
Unpublished theses and dissertations
Online Sources
Index
