2013
DOI: 10.1086/shad27010062
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Sobering Up The Magdalenes’ Drunken Sisters: The Institutional Treatment of “Female Drunken Pests” in Scotland, 1900–15

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“…The use of convictions helped head off libertarian opposition to lengthy sentencing, for they demonstrated an inability to with liberal freedom. However, the 1898 Act’s reliance on criminal justice created what Hands (2013: 63) terms a ‘two-tier system’ of private retreat ‘care for the wealthy’ and reformatory ‘imprisonment for the poor’. The Act included clauses for use in the magistrate courts of England and Wales and separate ones to account for Scotland’s judicial system.…”
Section: Framing Inebrietymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The use of convictions helped head off libertarian opposition to lengthy sentencing, for they demonstrated an inability to with liberal freedom. However, the 1898 Act’s reliance on criminal justice created what Hands (2013: 63) terms a ‘two-tier system’ of private retreat ‘care for the wealthy’ and reformatory ‘imprisonment for the poor’. The Act included clauses for use in the magistrate courts of England and Wales and separate ones to account for Scotland’s judicial system.…”
Section: Framing Inebrietymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although the published legislation said nothing of class or gender, the gaze of inebriate criminal justice would fall on women of the city street, women with lengthy histories and complex geographies of incarceration for the likes of petty theft, breaches of the peace and prostitution. Thora Hands (2013: 63) describes reformatories as containing ‘the shifting boundaries of deviant femininity’ and an all too public set of behaviours. Even when taking account of its mix of section 23 and 24 admissions, women outnumbered men in Perth by a factor of four to one (129 to 33 by the end of 1913) (BPP, 1914 [Cd.…”
Section: Framing Inebrietymentioning
confidence: 99%
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