Alyson Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3783197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alyson Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alyson |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edge Hill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3932-9474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Convict Voices: Women, Class, and Writing About Prisons in Nineteenth-Century England
Convict Voices: Women, Class, and Writing About Prisons in Nineteenth-Century England." Cultural and Social History, 13(3), pp. 432–433
Show me the prison! The development of prison tourism in the UK
This paper presents an analysis of the historical development and interpretation of prison tourism in the UK Britain and the influence of this on current representations of prison museums via prison museum websites. While there has been significant examination of various prison museums overseas there has been comparatively little published on these institutions in the UK Britain. In response to contending pressures, prison museums have endeavoure…
Inter-war Penal Policy and Crime in England: The Dartmoor Convict Prison Riot 1932
An exploration of the 1932 prison riot in Dartmoor Convict Prison. One of the most notorious and destructive in English prison history, it received unprecedented public and media attention. This book
Dartmoor: Penal and Cultural Icon
D artmoor is one of the oldest B ritish prisons still in use. Opened in 1809, it quickly gained a brutal reputation that its later history has done little to dispel. The image of D artmoor has loomed large in E ngland's penal and cultural past and endures because of its combination of particular architecture, topography and inmate population as well as its unique capacity to invoke, within the public consciousness, an idealised and even mythical …
Crime, Criminal Mobility and Serial Offenders in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
This article examines the criminal records of 427 convicts present in Dartmoor Prison during a large-scale riot on 24 January 1932. The structure of this notorious convict population is outlined and the significant proportion of relatively minor crimes on their records is highlighted. The geographical mobility of these offenders is considered along with the diverse reasons why these men, and others like them, travelled. The idea of mobility, the …
The Amazing Mutiny At the Dartmoor Convict Prison
Considers the significance of the riot which occurred in Dartmoor prison in 1932, including: (1) how the event was explained to the public; (2) the condition of the prison at that time; (3) the allegations of staff brutality made at the defendants' trial and how these were received; and (4) how the culpability of various inmates was determined.
Mythologies and panics: Twentieth century constructions of child prostitution
This paper examines twentieth century social constructions of child prostitutes and child prostitution, the origins of these representations and the extent to which they have been used as metaphors for other perceived social, economic and political problems. It is important to recognise that these children have been sexually abused and that discourses that have portrayed them as either assertive and blameworthy seducers or as abducted and coerced…
'Knowledge of Evil': Child Prostitution and Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century England
Foreword 1. Introduction - concepts and contexts 2. Debating nineteenth-century child prostitution 3. Edwardian England and the ideal family 4. War and the 1920s 5. Prostitution, child abuse and feminism during the 1920s and 1930s 6. Reconstruction and a new society 7. The rediscovery of child prostitution during the 1960s and 1970s 8. Child prostitution during the 1980s and 1990s
Conflicting Objectives: Suffragette Prisoners and Female Prison Staff in Edwardian England
(2002). Conflicting Objectives: Suffragette Prisoners and Female Prison Staff in Edwardian England. Women's Studies: Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 627-644
Doing Time: The Extended Present of the Long-Term Prisoner
The prison as a coercive and relatively closed community offers one of the best representations of the way in which values of time depend not only on their absolute length but on the nature and intensity of their qualities. This research note compares perceptions of time revealed in the autobiographies of discharged British prisoners of the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the conclusions of another study regarding the temporal perceptions…
Short notices
Adrian Wilson, The Making of Man‐Midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660–1770 (1995), xii + 239 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., $75.00/£35.00). Charles Tilly, Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758–1834 (1995), xvi + 476 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., $49.95/£31.50). Paul A. Pickering, Chartism and the Chartists in Manchester and Salford (1995), x + 294 (St Martin's Press, New York, $65.00). Robert A. J. McDonald, Mak…
Short notices
Ronald Hut ton, The Rise and Fall of Merry England. The Ritual Year 1400–1700 (1994), xi + 306 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, £17.95). Sean McConville, English Local Prisons 1860–1900, Next Only to Death (1995), 757 (Routledge, London, £125.00)
Doing Time: The Extended Present of the Long-Term Prisoner
The prison as a coercive and relatively closed community offers one of the best representations of the way in which values of time depend not only on their absolute length but on the nature and intensity of their qualities. This research note compares perceptions of time revealed in the autobiographies of discharged British prisoners of the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the conclusions of another study regarding the temporal perceptions…
Show me the prison! The development of prison tourism in the UK
This paper presents an analysis of the historical development and interpretation of prison tourism in the UK Britain and the influence of this on current representations of prison museums via prison museum websites. While there has been significant examination of various prison museums overseas there has been comparatively little published on these institutions in the UK Britain. In response to contending pressures, prison museums have endeavoure…
Crime, Criminal Mobility and Serial Offenders in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
This article examines the criminal records of 427 convicts present in Dartmoor Prison during a large-scale riot on 24 January 1932. The structure of this notorious convict population is outlined and the significant proportion of relatively minor crimes on their records is highlighted. The geographical mobility of these offenders is considered along with the diverse reasons why these men, and others like them, travelled. The idea of mobility, the …
The Amazing Mutiny At the Dartmoor Convict Prison
Considers the significance of the riot which occurred in Dartmoor prison in 1932, including: (1) how the event was explained to the public; (2) the condition of the prison at that time; (3) the allegations of staff brutality made at the defendants' trial and how these were received; and (4) how the culpability of various inmates was determined.
Short notices
Ronald Hut ton, The Rise and Fall of Merry England. The Ritual Year 1400–1700 (1994), xi + 306 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, £17.95). Sean McConville, English Local Prisons 1860–1900, Next Only to Death (1995), 757 (Routledge, London, £125.00)
Short notices
Adrian Wilson, The Making of Man‐Midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660–1770 (1995), xii + 239 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., $75.00/£35.00). Charles Tilly, Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758–1834 (1995), xvi + 476 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., $49.95/£31.50). Paul A. Pickering, Chartism and the Chartists in Manchester and Salford (1995), x + 294 (St Martin's Press, New York, $65.00). Robert A. J. McDonald, Mak…
Doing Time: The Extended Present of the Long-Term Prisoner
The prison as a coercive and relatively closed community offers one of the best representations of the way in which values of time depend not only on their absolute length but on the nature and intensity of their qualities. This research note compares perceptions of time revealed in the autobiographies of discharged British prisoners of the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the conclusions of another study regarding the temporal perceptions…
'Knowledge of Evil': Child Prostitution and Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century England
Foreword 1. Introduction - concepts and contexts 2. Debating nineteenth-century child prostitution 3. Edwardian England and the ideal family 4. War and the 1920s 5. Prostitution, child abuse and feminism during the 1920s and 1930s 6. Reconstruction and a new society 7. The rediscovery of child prostitution during the 1960s and 1970s 8. Child prostitution during the 1980s and 1990s
Conflicting Objectives: Suffragette Prisoners and Female Prison Staff in Edwardian England
(2002). Conflicting Objectives: Suffragette Prisoners and Female Prison Staff in Edwardian England. Women's Studies: Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 627-644
Mythologies and panics: Twentieth century constructions of child prostitution
This paper examines twentieth century social constructions of child prostitutes and child prostitution, the origins of these representations and the extent to which they have been used as metaphors for other perceived social, economic and political problems. It is important to recognise that these children have been sexually abused and that discourses that have portrayed them as either assertive and blameworthy seducers or as abducted and coerced…
The Amazing Mutiny At the Dartmoor Convict Prison
Considers the significance of the riot which occurred in Dartmoor prison in 1932, including: (1) how the event was explained to the public; (2) the condition of the prison at that time; (3) the allegations of staff brutality made at the defendants' trial and how these were received; and (4) how the culpability of various inmates was determined.
Dartmoor: Penal and Cultural Icon
D artmoor is one of the oldest B ritish prisons still in use. Opened in 1809, it quickly gained a brutal reputation that its later history has done little to dispel. The image of D artmoor has loomed large in E ngland's penal and cultural past and endures because of its combination of particular architecture, topography and inmate population as well as its unique capacity to invoke, within the public consciousness, an idealised and even mythical …
Crime, Criminal Mobility and Serial Offenders in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
This article examines the criminal records of 427 convicts present in Dartmoor Prison during a large-scale riot on 24 January 1932. The structure of this notorious convict population is outlined and the significant proportion of relatively minor crimes on their records is highlighted. The geographical mobility of these offenders is considered along with the diverse reasons why these men, and others like them, travelled. The idea of mobility, the …
Inter-war Penal Policy and Crime in England: The Dartmoor Convict Prison Riot 1932
An exploration of the 1932 prison riot in Dartmoor Convict Prison. One of the most notorious and destructive in English prison history, it received unprecedented public and media attention. This book
Show me the prison! The development of prison tourism in the UK
This paper presents an analysis of the historical development and interpretation of prison tourism in the UK Britain and the influence of this on current representations of prison museums via prison museum websites. While there has been significant examination of various prison museums overseas there has been comparatively little published on these institutions in the UK Britain. In response to contending pressures, prison museums have endeavoure…
Convict Voices: Women, Class, and Writing About Prisons in Nineteenth-Century England
Convict Voices: Women, Class, and Writing About Prisons in Nineteenth-Century England." Cultural and Social History, 13(3), pp. 432–433
Criminology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Prison (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Convict (4 works)