Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9780429318832
,
0429318839
,
9781000095791
,
1000095797
,
9781000095814
,
1000095819
,
9781000095807
,
1000095800
Series Statement:
Routledge SOLON explorations in crime and criminal justice histories
Content:
'[T]he broken stave at the top of the ladder of England's civilisation': representing the ending of public execution in 1868 / James Gregory -- Part 1. Going to see a man hanged -- 'A practice which wounds only the living': publicly punishing the criminal body in nineteenth-century Scotland / Rachel Bennett -- 'Every loathsome reptile form of vice and crime'. Formulations of the nineteenth-century London execution crowd: fears, fictions and realities / Matthew White -- 'How murderers die': the impact of the 1868 abolition of public execution on life-writing by executioners / Katherine Ebury -- 'Stand in the place of those executed': interpreting capital punishment in UK prison museums / Rhiannon Pickin -- Part 2. 'One had better narrate the circumstances as they occurred' -- '[...] were sensation our object, it would not be difficult to cull from the Newgate Calendar': periodical journalism and distaste for public executions, c. 1830-1870 / Samuel Saunders -- George Vass: the making and un-making of a criminal monster / Helen Rutherford and Clare Sandford-Couch -- The 'hermetically sealed' prison: witnessing executions in the north east of England 1868-1878 / Patrick Low -- The only consolation is that the criminal is not a Welshman: the foreign-born men hanged in Wales, 1840-1900 / Stephanie Emma Brown
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367332457
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780367332457
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780429318832
