Madness and murder : gender, crime and mental disorder in nineteenth-century Ireland / Pauline M. Prior ; foreword by Angela Bourke.

Dublin ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press, 2008.

xiv, 258 pages ; 24 cm

Pt. 1. The context. Crime and punishment -- Criminal lunacy -- Managing crime and mental disorder -- pt. 2. The stories. Men who killed women -- Women who killed children -- Women who killed men -- Family murders -- Leaving behind crime and madness -- Epilogue -- Appendices. The legal basis for admissions to the Central Criminal Asylum for Ireland, Dundrum, 1850-1900 -- Rules...for regulating the execution of capital sentences in Ireland -- List of selected statutes on mental disorder and crime -- Inspectors of Lunacy and senior medical staff at Dundrum 1850-1900.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-244) and index.