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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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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| Sraith: | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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| Rochtain ar líne: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62018-3 |
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Clár na nÁbhar:
- 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. .