Broadmoor Women

Author : Kim E Thomas
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526794277

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Broadmoor Women by Kim E Thomas Pdf

Broadmoor, Britain’s first asylum for criminal lunatics, was founded in 1863. In the first years of its existence, one in five patients was female. Most had been tried for terrible crimes and sent to Broadmoor after being found not guilty by virtue of insanity. Many had murdered their own children, while others had killed husbands or other family members. Drawing on Broadmoor’s rich archive, this book tells the story of seven of those women, ranging from a farmer’s daughter in her 20s who shot dead her own mother to a middle-class housewife who drowned her baby daughter. Their moving stories give a glimpse into what nineteenth-century life was like for ordinary women, often struggling with poverty, domestic abuse and repeated childbearing. For some, Broadmoor, with its regime of plain food, fresh air and garden walks, was a respite from the hardships of their previous life. Others were desperate to return to their families. All but one of the women whose stories are recounted in this book recovered and were released. Their bout of insanity was temporary. Yet the causes of their condition were poorly understood and the treatment rudimentary. As well as providing an in-depth look at the lives of women in Victorian England, the book offers a fascinating insight into the medical profession’s emerging understanding of the causes and treatment of mental illness.

Author : Mark Stevens
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781783462360

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Broadmoor Revealed by Mark Stevens Pdf

“A fascinating insight into the country’s most famous asylum for criminals” which reveals Victorian England’s care and management of the mentally ill (Your Family Tree). On 27 May 1863, three coaches pulled up at the gates of a new asylum, built amongst the tall, dense pines of Windsor Forest. Broadmoor’s first patients had arrived. In Broadmoor Revealed, Mark Stevens writes about what life was like for the criminally insane, over one hundred years ago. From fresh research into the Broadmoor archives, Mark has uncovered the lost lives of patients whose mental illnesses led them to become involved in crime. Discover the five women who went on to become mothers in Broadmoor, giving birth to new life when three of them had previously taken it. Find out how several Victorian immigrants ended their hopeful journeys to England in madness and disaster. And follow the numerous escapes, actual and attempted, as the first doctors tried to assert control over the residents. As well as bringing the lives of forgotten patients to light, this thrilling book reveals new perspectives on some of the hospital’s most famous Victorian residents: Edward Oxford, the bar boy who shot at Queen Victoria. Richard Dadd, the brilliant artist and murderer of his own father. William Chester Minor, veteran of the American Civil War who went on to play a key part in the first Oxford English Dictionary. Christiana Edmunds, The Chocolate Cream Poisoner and frustrated lover from Brighton. “Detailed and thoughtful.” —Times Literary Supplement “It challenges preconceptions about mental illness and public reaction to shocking crimes.” —Bracknell Forest Standard

Author : Lucy Williams,Barry Godfrey
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781526718631

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Criminal Women, 1850–1920 by Lucy Williams,Barry Godfrey Pdf

“The fascinating lives of the women who hit hard times . . . investigat[es] the stories behind the faces in the incredible images.” —Al Bawaba Women are among the hardest individuals to trace through the historical record and this is especially true of female offenders who had a vested interest in not wanting to be found. That is why this thought-provoking and accessible handbook by Lucy Williams and Barry Godfrey is of such value. It looks beyond the crimes and the newspaper reports of women criminals in the Victorian era in order to reveal the reality of their personal and penal journeys, and it provides a guide for researchers who are keen to explore this intriguing and neglected subject. The book is split into three sections. There is an introduction outlining the historical context for the study of female crime and punishment, then a series of real-life case studies which show in a vivid way the complexity of female offenders’ lives and follows them through the penal system. The third section is a detailed guide to archival and online sources that readers can consult in order to explore the life-histories of criminal women. The result is a rare combination of academic guide and how-to-do-it manual. It introduces readers to the latest research in the field and it gives them all the information they need to carry out their own research. “The core of the book consists of some 30 case studies of women who went through the system, their offences (from drunkenness and petty theft to murder) and their punishments (from fines or prison to transportation or execution).” —Police History Society

Author : Nicole Westmarland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317667636

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Violence against Women by Nicole Westmarland Pdf

Violence against women is an enduring problem around the globe, yet very few books look at the full range of men’s violences against women – perpetrated in relationships, in the family, in public spaces, and in institutions. While books that look at different types of violence, such as domestic violence, ‘honour’ based violence and rape in isolation are useful for depth, it is only by looking across these different spheres that the true extent of men’s violences against women becomes clear. This book usefully covers all of the main forms of violence against women, looking at it from a research, policy, and practice perspective. Including discussion of fifteen different types of violence against women, this book is original in offering an introduction to such a broad range of topics, and for including chapters on violences that have rarely been written about, as well as those that are more commonly discussed and those that have been sidelined in recent years. By bringing together work on violence against women committed by partners, family members, strangers, acquaintances, institutions and businesses, this book widens the lens through which we view men’s violences against women. Violence against Women is essential reading for criminologists and sociologists who want to be up to date with cutting-edge knowledge on this topic. It is also an invaluable text for those training to enter or become qualified in the specialist domestic and sexual violence sector.

Author : Nikki Jeffcote,Tessa Watson
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781843102182

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Working Therapeutically with Women in Secure Mental Health Settings by Nikki Jeffcote,Tessa Watson Pdf

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Kim E Thomas
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526794291

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Broadmoor Women by Kim E Thomas Pdf

Broadmoor, Britain’s first asylum for criminal lunatics, was founded in 1863. In the first years of its existence, one in five patients was female. Most had been tried for terrible crimes and sent to Broadmoor after being found not guilty by virtue of insanity. Many had murdered their own children, while others had killed husbands or other family members. Drawing on Broadmoor’s rich archive, this book tells the story of seven of those women, ranging from a farmer’s daughter in her 20s who shot dead her own mother to a middle-class housewife who drowned her baby daughter. Their moving stories give a glimpse into what nineteenth-century life was like for ordinary women, often struggling with poverty, domestic abuse and repeated childbearing. For some, Broadmoor, with its regime of plain food, fresh air and garden walks, was a respite from the hardships of their previous life. Others were desperate to return to their families. All but one of the women whose stories are recounted in this book recovered and were released. Their bout of insanity was temporary. Yet the causes of their condition were poorly understood and the treatment rudimentary. As well as providing an in-depth look at the lives of women in Victorian England, the book offers a fascinating insight into the medical profession’s emerging understanding of the causes and treatment of mental illness.

Author : Shani D'Cruze,Louise A. Jackson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137057204

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Women, Crime and Justice in England since 1660 by Shani D'Cruze,Louise A. Jackson Pdf

Shani D'Cruze and Louise A. Jackson provide students with a lively overview of women's relationship to the criminal justice system in England, exploring key debates in the regulation of 'respectable' and 'deviant' femininities over the last 4 centuries. Major issues include: - Attitudes towards murder and infanticide - Prostitution - The decline of witchcraft belief - Sexual violence - The 'girl delinquent' - Theft and fraud. The volume also examines women's participation in illegal forms of protest and political activism, their experience of penal regimes as well as strategies of resistance, and their involvement in occupations associated with criminal justice itself. Assuming that men and women cannot be studied in isolation, D'Cruze and Jackson make reference to recent studies of masculinity and comment on the ways in which relations between men and women have been understood and negotiated across time. Featuring examples drawn from a rich range of sources such as court records, autobiographies, literature and film, this is an ideal introduction to an increasingly popular area of study.

Author : Alison C. Pedley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350275348

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Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England by Alison C. Pedley Pdf

Tracing the experiences of women who were designated insane by judicial processes from 1850 to 1900, this book considers the ideas and purposes of incarceration in three dedicated facilities: Bethlem, Fisherton House and Broadmoor. The majority of these patients had murdered, or attempted to murder, their own children but were not necessarily condemned as incurably evil by medical and legal authorities, nor by general society. Alison C. Pedley explores how insanity gave the Victorians an acceptable explanation for these dreadful crimes, and as a result, how admission to a dedicated asylum was viewed as the safest and most human solution for the 'madwomen' as well as for society as a whole. Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England considers the experiences, treatments and regimes women underwent in an attempt to redeem and rehabilitate them, and return them to into a patriarchal society. It shows how society's views of the institutions and insanity were not necessarily negative or coloured by fear and revulsion, and highlights the changes in attitudes to female criminal lunacy in the second half of the 19th century. Through extensive and detailed research into the three asylums' archives and in legal, governmental, press and genealogical records, this book sheds new light on the views of the patients themselves, and contributes to the historiography of Victorian criminal lunatic asylums, conceptualising them as places of recovery, rehabilitation and restitution.

Author : Basant Puri,Ian H. Treasaden
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781482254563

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Forensic Psychiatry by Basant Puri,Ian H. Treasaden Pdf

This book covers the basic science and neurobiology of violence and integrates this with clinical, legal, and ethical aspects of forensic psychiatry. Unique text which integrates the basic sciences, clinical, legal, and ethical aspects Highly illustrated. Numerous colour images in the basic sciences section further explain the text Succinct yet comprehensive coverage for instant access to the information The book is designed for postgraduate trainees in psychiatry wishing to specialise in forensic psychiatry, specialists in forensic psychiatry, mental health, criminal lawyers, and forensic psychologists. It will be an invaluable reference work for clinical psychologists, criminologists, sociologists, and other professionals working with forensic psychiatric patients such as members of the probation service, social workers, and nursing staff.

Author : Anna Motz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134140039

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The Psychology of Female Violence by Anna Motz Pdf

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780215027603

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Prison Suicides and Overcrowding by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee Pdf

Prison suicides and Overcrowding : Oral and written evidence, Tuesday 8 November 2005, Ms Frances Crook, Ms Pauline Campbell, Ms Deborah Coles, Ms Juliet Lyon and Mr Geoff Dobson; Rt Hon Baroness Scotland of Asthal QC, Ms Christine Knott, Mr Phil Wheatley

Author : Ralph Partridge
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:49015000212705

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Broadmoor, a History of Criminal Lunacy and Its Problems by Ralph Partridge Pdf

Author : Emmanuel David
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252099861

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Women of the Storm by Emmanuel David Pdf

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita made landfall less than four weeks apart in 2005. Months later, much of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast remained in tatters. As the region faded from national headlines, its residents faced a dire future. Emmanuel David chronicles how one activist group confronted the crisis. Founded by a few elite white women in New Orleans, Women of the Storm quickly formed a broad coalition that sought to represent Louisiana's diverse population. From its early lobbying of Congress through its response to the 2010 BP oil spill, David shows how members' actions were shaped by gender, race, class, and geography. Drawing on in-depth interviews, ethnographic observation, and archival research, David tells a compelling story of collective action and personal transformation that expands our understanding of the aftermath of an historic American catastrophe.

Author : Terry Trainor
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781471714283

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Bedlam. St. Mary of Bethlehem by Terry Trainor Pdf

The Monros were also owners of private 'madhouses' in Hackney and Clerkenwell, and visiting physicians to scores of others. Indeed the family name 'Monro', became synonymous with the very word 'mad-doctor'. Absenteeism of the medical officers at Bethlem led to patients too often being at the mercy of untrained and overstretched staff. This was a central point of the shocking revelations of the Parliamentary enquiry into 'madhouses' in 1815/16. James Monro, and his son John, had already suffered a public scandal with the publication of 'A Treatise on Madness' in 1758. Here, William Battie, physician to the London asylum of St. Luke's, argued that Bethlem and the treatment doled out by the Monros, was antiquated, negligent and abusive. So began the great rivalry between the two establishments

Author : Tom Mason,Dave Mercer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997-11-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781349261048

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Critical Perspectives in Forensic Care by Tom Mason,Dave Mercer Pdf

A full and challenging examination of the practice and contextual issues relating to nursing in secure units - whether within special hospitals, the prison service or more general hospitals. Historical and philosophical issues are explored, then more practical aspects are discussed.