Dr Lynsey Black has published a monograph, Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922-64 with Manchester University Press. Gender and Punishment in Ireland explores women's lethal violence in Ireland. Drawing on comprehensive archival research, including government documents, press reporting, the remnants of public opinion and the voices of the women themselves, the book contributes to the burgeoning literature on gender and punishment and women who kill. Engaging with concepts such as 'double deviance', chivalry, paternalism and 'coercive confinement', the work explores the penal landscape for offending women in postcolonial Ireland, examining in particular the role of the Catholic Church in responses to female deviance.
This is Dr Black's first monograph and her second book, following the publication of Law and Gender in Modern Ireland, co-edited with Dr Peter Dunne, with Hart Publishing in 2019.