Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834

AvRachel E. Bennett

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth century to date.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-12-15
Mått:148 x 210 x 22 mm
Vikt:464 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Antal sidor:237
Upplaga:17001
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319620176

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Rachel E. Bennett is Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK. Her research interests include various aspects of Britain’s criminal history including capital punishment and the post-mortem punishment of the criminal body, the intersections of medicine and the criminal justice system and medical care in women’s prisons.

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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: The Implementation of the Death Sentence in Scotland.- Chapter 2: Capital Punishment and the Scottish Criminal Justice System.- Chapter 3: Contextualising the Punishment of Death.- Chapter 4: Scottish Women and the Hangman’s Noose.- Part II: The Theatre of the Gallows in Scotland.- Chapter 5: The Spectacle of the Scaffold.- Chapter 6: A Fate Worse than Death? Dissection and the Criminal Corpse.- Chapter 7: Hanging in Chains: The Criminal Corpse on Display.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.- Index.