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Seeing Justice Done - The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France (Hardcover)
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Seeing Justice Done - The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France (Hardcover)
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From the early Middle Ages to the twentieth century, capital
punishment in France, as in many other countries, was staged before
large crowds of spectators. Paul Friedland traces the theory and
practice of public executions over time, both from the perspective
of those who staged these punishments as well as from the vantage
point of the many thousands who came to "see justice done". While
penal theorists often stressed that the fundamental purpose of
public punishment was to strike fear in the hearts of spectators,
the eagerness with which crowds flocked to executions and the
extent to which spectators actually enjoyed the spectacle of
suffering suggests that there was a wide gulf between theoretical
intentions and actual experiences. Moreover, public executions of
animals, effigies, and corpses point to an enduring ritual function
that had little to do with exemplary deterrence. In the eighteenth
century, when a revolution in sensibilities made it unseemly for
individuals to take pleasure in or even witness the suffering of
others, capital punishment became the target of reformers. From the
invention of the guillotine, which reduced the moment of death to
the blink of an eye, to the 1939 decree which moved executions
behind prison walls, capital punishment in France was
systematically stripped of its spectacular elements. Partly a
history of penal theory, partly an anthropologically-inspired study
of the penal ritual, Seeing Justice Done traces the historical
roots of modern capital punishment, and sheds light on the
fundamental "disconnect" between the theory and practice of
punishment which endures to this day, not only in France but in the
Western penal tradition more generally.
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