Carolyn Strange teaches at the Centre of Criminologyat the University of Toronto. She is the author of Toronto'sGirl Problem: The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880-1930.

This thought-provoking and well-written book will be of particular interest to students of law, sociology, public policy, and criminal justice administration. - Anna Leslie (Canadian Book Review Annual)

• Foreword / Douglas HayAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Carolyn Strange1. Civilized People Don't Want to See That Sort of Thing: TheDecline of Physical Punishment in London, 1760-1840 / Greg T.Smith2. In Place of Death: Transportation, Penal Practices, and theEnglish State, 1770-1830 / Simon Devereaux3. `Harshness and Forbearance': The Politics of Pardons and theUpper Canada Rebellion / Barry Wright4. Savage Mercy: Native Culture and the Modification of CapitalPunishment in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia / TinaLoo5. Discretionary Justice: Political Culture and the Death Penalty inNew South Wales and Ontario, 1890-1920 / Carolyn StrangePunishment in Late-Twentieth-Century Canada: An Afterword /Anthony N. Doob

Carolyn Strange teaches at the Centre of Criminologyat the University of Toronto. She is the author of Toronto'sGirl Problem: The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880-1930.

This thought-provoking and well-written book will be of particular interest to students of law, sociology, public policy, and criminal justice administration. - Anna Leslie (Canadian Book Review Annual)

• Foreword / Douglas HayAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Carolyn Strange1. Civilized People Don't Want to See That Sort of Thing: TheDecline of Physical Punishment in London, 1760-1840 / Greg T.Smith2. In Place of Death: Transportation, Penal Practices, and theEnglish State, 1770-1830 / Simon Devereaux3. `Harshness and Forbearance': The Politics of Pardons and theUpper Canada Rebellion / Barry Wright4. Savage Mercy: Native Culture and the Modification of CapitalPunishment in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia / TinaLoo5. Discretionary Justice: Political Culture and the Death Penalty inNew South Wales and Ontario, 1890-1920 / Carolyn StrangePunishment in Late-Twentieth-Century Canada: An Afterword /Anthony N. Doob

Carolyn Strange teaches at the Centre of Criminologyat the University of Toronto. She is the author of Toronto'sGirl Problem: The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880-1930.

This thought-provoking and well-written book will be of particular interest to students of law, sociology, public policy, and criminal justice administration. - Anna Leslie (Canadian Book Review Annual)

• Foreword / Douglas HayAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Carolyn Strange1. Civilized People Don't Want to See That Sort of Thing: TheDecline of Physical Punishment in London, 1760-1840 / Greg T.Smith2. In Place of Death: Transportation, Penal Practices, and theEnglish State, 1770-1830 / Simon Devereaux3. `Harshness and Forbearance': The Politics of Pardons and theUpper Canada Rebellion / Barry Wright4. Savage Mercy: Native Culture and the Modification of CapitalPunishment in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia / TinaLoo5. Discretionary Justice: Political Culture and the Death Penalty inNew South Wales and Ontario, 1890-1920 / Carolyn StrangePunishment in Late-Twentieth-Century Canada: An Afterword /Anthony N. Doob