L Black
Biographic Data
| ID | 38824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Black |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Black |
| SIGNATURE | BLACK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2852-7328 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland
The role of religion was pivotal in shaping how women were punished in postcolonial Ireland. The new state used the Catholic Church to establish a separate system of confinement, a shadow penal regime for women, which drew its inmates from within a newly recognized threat to the nation. Drawing on Mark Brown's work on the ways in which postcolonial states can replicate the repression of colonialism, the article suggests that under an increasingly…
‘Strikingly and stubbornly high’: Investigating the paradox of public confidence in the Irish police
While levels of public confidence in the police have declined internationally, the Republic of Ireland appears to have bucked this trend with confidence levels that remain ‘strikingly and stubbornly high’ ( Mulcahy, 2016 : 275). This situation appears all the more puzzling given the wave of scandals to have hit the force in recent decades, ranging from police corruption in Donegal in the late 1990s to a more recent whistleblower scandal that has …
Historical Gendered Institutional Violence: A Research Agenda for Criminologists
This article considers the phenomenon of historical gendered institutional harm, examining the widespread incarceration of women and girls in Ireland through the decades following independence in 1922. In this period, thousands of women and girls were confined in a network of sites including Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes. The article considers the responses to this history, focusing on those fields which concern themselves with ma…
“Strikingly and Stubbornly High”: Investigating the Paradox of Public Confidence in the Irish Police
While levels of public confidence in the police have declined internationally, the Republic of Ireland appears to have bucked this trend with confidence levels that remain “strikingly and stubbornly high.” This situation appears all the more puzzling given the wave of scandals to have hit the force in recent decades, ranging from police corruption in Donegal in the late 1990s to a more recent whistleblower scandal that has resulted in the resigna…
Introduction: Legacies of Empire
The abstract is included in the text
Bailey V, The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895–1970
Public opinion on crime, punishment and the death penalty in Barbados
The bulk of extant research on public opinion on crime and punishment is focused on Global North nations. This article contributes a new perspective to the literature on punitivism by examining public opinion on crime, punishment and the death penalty in Barbados. The article presents insights from exploratory focus group research conducted in Barbados in 2017. These findings are particularly relevant as Barbadian lawmakers navigate reform of the…
The Pathologisation of Women Who Kill: Three Cases from Ireland
Women who kill are frequently subject to discourses of pathology. This article examines the cases of three women convicted of murder in Ireland following Independence in 1922 and explores how each woman was constructed as pathologised. Using archival materials, the article demonstrates that diagnoses were contingent and imbricated with notions of gender, morality, dangerousness, and class. For two of the women, their pathologisation led to them b…
Irish women and the vote: Becoming Citizens
“On the other hand the accused is a woman…”: Women and the Death Penalty in Post-Independence Ireland
Hannah Flynn was sentenced to death on February 27, 1924. She had been convicted of the murder of Margaret O'Sullivan, her former employer. Hannah worked for Margaret and her husband Daniel as a domestic servant, an arrangement that ended with bad feeling on both sides when Hannah was dismissed. On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1923, while Daniel was at church, Hannah returned to her former place of work, and killed 50-year-old Margaret with a hatchet.…
Tories and Hunters: Swinton College and the Landscape of Modern Conservatism
Tories and Hunters: Swinton College and the Landscape of Modern Conservatism, Lawrence Black For twenty-eight years from 1948 Swinton College was the Conservative Party’s activist training base in North Yorkshire. It was founded by Butler, hosted Heath’s policy ‘away days’ in the late 1960s, promoted the rise of neoliberal ideas and, notwithstanding this, was closed by Thatcher. Housed in Lord Swinton’s stately home, it was also one of Macmillan’…
GEOFFREY G. Field. Blood, Sweat, and Toil: Remaking the British Working Class, 1939-1945
World War II and the working class are hardly topics that historians of Britain can be accused of ignoring. Geoffrey G. Field brings the two together here, critiquing the historiography that has emphasized national unity and the rhetoric of a “people's war,” as well as those who regard the war's political results by 1945 as representing either a policy consensus or an indifferent apathetic popular politics. Field's case is that the dominant categ…
Consumer Chronicles: Cultures of Consumption in modern French literature
Journal Article Consumer Chronicles: Cultures of Consumption in modern French literature Get access Consumer Chronicles: Cultures of Consumption in Modern French Literature. By David H. Walker. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2011. vii+ 328 pp. £65.00. ISBN 9781846314872 Lawrence Black Lawrence Black Durham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 25, Issue 4, December 2011,…
The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World
Journal Article The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World Get access The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World, ed. Frank Trentmann (Oxford: Berg, 2006; pp. 318. £55; pb. £19.99). Lawrence Black Lawrence Black Durham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 506, February 2009, Pages …
Social Democracy as a Way of Life: Fellowship and the Socialist Union, 1951-9
This articles considers the political cultural of the Socialist Union (1951–9), and influential ethical socialist group in the 1950s' Labour Party. Specifically, it discusses its unique intellectual influences and the legacy of its (somewhat different) previous manifestation as the Socialist Vanguard Group (1929–50). Emphasis is placed on the importance of the notion of fellowship to the politics of this tradition and how this shaped a distinct p…
Irish women and the vote: Becoming Citizens
Introduction: Legacies of Empire
The abstract is included in the text
Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland
The role of religion was pivotal in shaping how women were punished in postcolonial Ireland. The new state used the Catholic Church to establish a separate system of confinement, a shadow penal regime for women, which drew its inmates from within a newly recognized threat to the nation. Drawing on Mark Brown's work on the ways in which postcolonial states can replicate the repression of colonialism, the article suggests that under an increasingly…
Tories and Hunters: Swinton College and the Landscape of Modern Conservatism
Tories and Hunters: Swinton College and the Landscape of Modern Conservatism, Lawrence Black For twenty-eight years from 1948 Swinton College was the Conservative Party’s activist training base in North Yorkshire. It was founded by Butler, hosted Heath’s policy ‘away days’ in the late 1960s, promoted the rise of neoliberal ideas and, notwithstanding this, was closed by Thatcher. Housed in Lord Swinton’s stately home, it was also one of Macmillan’…
Social Democracy as a Way of Life: Fellowship and the Socialist Union, 1951-9
This articles considers the political cultural of the Socialist Union (1951–9), and influential ethical socialist group in the 1950s' Labour Party. Specifically, it discusses its unique intellectual influences and the legacy of its (somewhat different) previous manifestation as the Socialist Vanguard Group (1929–50). Emphasis is placed on the importance of the notion of fellowship to the politics of this tradition and how this shaped a distinct p…
The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World
Journal Article The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World Get access The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World, ed. Frank Trentmann (Oxford: Berg, 2006; pp. 318. £55; pb. £19.99). Lawrence Black Lawrence Black Durham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 506, February 2009, Pages …
Consumer Chronicles: Cultures of Consumption in modern French literature
Journal Article Consumer Chronicles: Cultures of Consumption in modern French literature Get access Consumer Chronicles: Cultures of Consumption in Modern French Literature. By David H. Walker. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2011. vii+ 328 pp. £65.00. ISBN 9781846314872 Lawrence Black Lawrence Black Durham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 25, Issue 4, December 2011,…
GEOFFREY G. Field. Blood, Sweat, and Toil: Remaking the British Working Class, 1939-1945
World War II and the working class are hardly topics that historians of Britain can be accused of ignoring. Geoffrey G. Field brings the two together here, critiquing the historiography that has emphasized national unity and the rhetoric of a “people's war,” as well as those who regard the war's political results by 1945 as representing either a policy consensus or an indifferent apathetic popular politics. Field's case is that the dominant categ…
Tories and Hunters: Swinton College and the Landscape of Modern Conservatism
Tories and Hunters: Swinton College and the Landscape of Modern Conservatism, Lawrence Black For twenty-eight years from 1948 Swinton College was the Conservative Party’s activist training base in North Yorkshire. It was founded by Butler, hosted Heath’s policy ‘away days’ in the late 1960s, promoted the rise of neoliberal ideas and, notwithstanding this, was closed by Thatcher. Housed in Lord Swinton’s stately home, it was also one of Macmillan’…
“On the other hand the accused is a woman…”: Women and the Death Penalty in Post-Independence Ireland
Hannah Flynn was sentenced to death on February 27, 1924. She had been convicted of the murder of Margaret O'Sullivan, her former employer. Hannah worked for Margaret and her husband Daniel as a domestic servant, an arrangement that ended with bad feeling on both sides when Hannah was dismissed. On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1923, while Daniel was at church, Hannah returned to her former place of work, and killed 50-year-old Margaret with a hatchet.…
The Pathologisation of Women Who Kill: Three Cases from Ireland
Women who kill are frequently subject to discourses of pathology. This article examines the cases of three women convicted of murder in Ireland following Independence in 1922 and explores how each woman was constructed as pathologised. Using archival materials, the article demonstrates that diagnoses were contingent and imbricated with notions of gender, morality, dangerousness, and class. For two of the women, their pathologisation led to them b…
Irish women and the vote: Becoming Citizens
Public opinion on crime, punishment and the death penalty in Barbados
The bulk of extant research on public opinion on crime and punishment is focused on Global North nations. This article contributes a new perspective to the literature on punitivism by examining public opinion on crime, punishment and the death penalty in Barbados. The article presents insights from exploratory focus group research conducted in Barbados in 2017. These findings are particularly relevant as Barbadian lawmakers navigate reform of the…
Bailey V, The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895–1970
Introduction: Legacies of Empire
The abstract is included in the text
‘Strikingly and stubbornly high’: Investigating the paradox of public confidence in the Irish police
While levels of public confidence in the police have declined internationally, the Republic of Ireland appears to have bucked this trend with confidence levels that remain ‘strikingly and stubbornly high’ ( Mulcahy, 2016 : 275). This situation appears all the more puzzling given the wave of scandals to have hit the force in recent decades, ranging from police corruption in Donegal in the late 1990s to a more recent whistleblower scandal that has …
Historical Gendered Institutional Violence: A Research Agenda for Criminologists
This article considers the phenomenon of historical gendered institutional harm, examining the widespread incarceration of women and girls in Ireland through the decades following independence in 1922. In this period, thousands of women and girls were confined in a network of sites including Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes. The article considers the responses to this history, focusing on those fields which concern themselves with ma…
“Strikingly and Stubbornly High”: Investigating the Paradox of Public Confidence in the Irish Police
While levels of public confidence in the police have declined internationally, the Republic of Ireland appears to have bucked this trend with confidence levels that remain “strikingly and stubbornly high.” This situation appears all the more puzzling given the wave of scandals to have hit the force in recent decades, ranging from police corruption in Donegal in the late 1990s to a more recent whistleblower scandal that has resulted in the resigna…
Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland
The role of religion was pivotal in shaping how women were punished in postcolonial Ireland. The new state used the Catholic Church to establish a separate system of confinement, a shadow penal regime for women, which drew its inmates from within a newly recognized threat to the nation. Drawing on Mark Brown's work on the ways in which postcolonial states can replicate the repression of colonialism, the article suggests that under an increasingly…
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