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

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. Based upon an extensive gathering and analysis of previously untapped resources, it takes the reader on a...

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Hlavní autor: Bennett, Rachel E. (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Edice:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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ISBN:9783319620183
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Obsah:
  • 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. .