CRG - Religious Homes as Sites of Punishment: Gender and Postcolonialism in Ireland - Lynsey Black
Location:
Virtual Event
Date/time
Fri 19 February 2021
13:00-14:00
The University of Edinburgh Criminology Reading Group Seminar Series 2020/2021 presents:
"Religious Homes as Sites of Punishment: Gender and Postcolonialism in Ireland"
Dr Lynsey Black, Department of Law, Maynooth University
Dr Lynsey Black will speak about her forthcoming book, which examines women, murder and punishment in independent Ireland. Focusing in particular on the sentencing and punishment of women charged with murder, the talk will investigate the use of religious homes as sites of confinement. The talk will explore the meanings of these religious institutions, institutions such as Magdalen Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes, and the paths by which they came to dominate in the post-independence decades, as well as the role of religious institutions in the criminal justice landscape of twentieth century Ireland.
Dr Lynsey Black is a lecturer in criminology in the Department of Law, Maynooth University. She researches in the areas of gender and punishment, the death penalty, historical criminology, and postcolonial criminology. Her first monograph on women, murder and punishment in post-independence Ireland is forthcoming with Manchester University Press. She is currently working on the Irish Research Council-funded project, 'Living Borders: Cattle Smuggling on the Ireland/Northern Ireland Border' which explores border criminality through the 20th century.
This event will take place for an hour with an opportunity for Q&A and discussion towards the end. The event is free for all and will take place on Zoom, please register to get the link!
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