1.Asylums for the Lunatic Poor, 1817-1867 2. The Politics of Lunatic Asylums, 1867–1914 3. The Law and the Insane 4. Insanity: The Contexts of Committal 5. The Asylum: Custody, Treatment, Control.
Biography
Mark Finnane is Professor of History at Griffith University, Australia. His doctoral research on mental illness, published in Insanity and the Insane in Post-Famine Ireland (1981), is the foundation for his later work on the history of policing, punishment and criminal justice in Australia and Ireland. His books include Police and government (1994), Punishment in Australian Society (1997) and (co-authored with Heather Douglas) Indigenous Crime and Settler Law: White Sovereignty after Empire (2012). Most recently he edited A Global History of Crime and Punishment: in the Age of Empire (2023). With the support of an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship (2013-18) he established and directs the Prosecution Project (https://prosecutionproject.griffith.edu.au/
Original Reviews of Insanity and the Insane in Post-Famine Ireland:
‘…a very useful survey of changing official responses to luncacy in nineteenth century Ireland…’ Andrew Scull, Journal of Social History, Volume 16, Issue 2 (1982)
‘…Finnane has made a valuable contribution to the growing study of Irish institutional history…’ David Fitzpatrick, Irish Historical Studies, Volume 23, Issue 91 (1983)
‘The book is well-written, well-researched and well-annotated…’ H.R. Rollin, British Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 140, Issue 4, (1982)
