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Rites of Execution - Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865 (Paperback, New Ed)
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Rites of Execution - Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865 (Paperback, New Ed)
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Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, Western societies
abandoned public executions in favor of private punishments,
primarily confinement in penitentiaries and private executions. The
transition, guided by a reconceptualization of the causes of crime,
the nature of authority, and the purposes of punishment, embodied
the triumph of new sensibilities and the reconstitution of cultural
values throughout the Western world. This study examines the
conflict over capital punishment in the United States and the way
it transformed American culture between the Revolution and the
Civil War. Relating the gradual shift in rituals of punishment and
attitudes toward discipline to the emergence of a middle class
culture that valued internal restraints and private punishments,
Masur traces the changing configuration of American criminal
justice. He examines the design of execution day in the
Revolutionary era as a spectacle of civil and religious order, the
origins of organized opposition to the death penalty and the
invention of the penitentiary, the creation of private executions,
reform organizations' commitment to social activism, and the
competing visions of humanity and society lodged at the core of the
debate over capital punishment. A fascinating and thoughtful look
at a topic that remains of burning interest today, Rites of
Execution will attract a wide range of scholarly and general
readers.
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