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Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840 - Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017) Loot Price: R1,077
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Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840 - Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Peter...

Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840 - Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

Peter King

Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two post-execution punishments, dissection and gibbeting, an integral part of sentences for murder. It traces the origins of the Act, and then explores the ways in which Act was actually put into practice. After identifying the dominance of penal dissection throughout the period, it looks at the abandonment of burning at the stake in the 1790s, the rapid decline of hanging in chains just after 1800, and the final abandonment of both dissection and gibbeting in 1832 and 1834. It concludes that the Act, by creating differentiation in levels of penalty, played an important role within the broader capital punishment system well into the nineteenth century. While eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century historians have extensively studied the 'Bloody Code' and the resulting interactions around the 'Hanging Tree', they have largely ignored an important dimension of the capital punishment system - the courts extensive use of aggravated and post-execution punishments. With this book, Peter King aims to rectify this neglected historical phenomenon.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Release date: December 2015
First published: 2017
Authors: Peter King
Dimensions: 210 x 148 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 212
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-51360-1
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > General
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 1-137-51360-8
Barcode: 9781137513601

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