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Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840 Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England /

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, disse...

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Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Sraith:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Ábhair:
History.
Great Britain > History.
Civilization > History.
Social history.
Crime > Sociological aspects.
Cultural History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Crime and Society.
History of Science.
Social History.
Rochtain ar líne:http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51361-8
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Clár na nÁbhar:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. ‘Hanging Not Punishment Enough’; Attitudes to Aggravated Forms of Execution and the Making of the Murder Act 1690-1752
  • Chapter 3. Patterns of Post-Execution Sentencing in England and Wales 1752-1834. The Murder Act in Operation
  • Chapter 4. Changing Attitudes to Post-Execution Punishment 1752-1834
  • Chapter 5. Conclusion
  • Index.

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