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Book/Printed Material Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834

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Title

  • Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834

Summary

  • 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 journey from the courtrooms of Scotland to the theatre of the gallows. It introduces them to several of the malefactors who faced the hangman's noose and explores the traditional hallmarks of the spectacle of the scaffold. It demonstrates that the period between 1740 and 1834 was one of discussion, debate and fundamental change in the use of the death sentence and how it was staged in practice. In addition, the study provides an innovative investigation of the post-mortem punishment of the criminal corpse. It offers the reader an insight into the scene at the foot of the gibbets from which criminal bodies were displayed, and around the dissection tables of Scotland's main universities where criminal bodies were used as cadavers for anatomical demonstration. In doing so it reveals an intermediate stage in the long-term disappearance of public bodily punishment.

Names

  • Bennett, Rachel E, author

Created / Published

  • Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Contents

  • 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.

Headings

  • -  Civilization--History
  • -  Crime--Sociological aspects
  • -  History
  • -  Social history
  • -  History of Britain and Ireland
  • -  Crime and Society
  • -  Cultural History
  • -  History of Science
  • -  Social History
  • -  Great Britain--History

Notes

  • -  Description based on publisher-supplied MARC data.
  • -  History (R0) (SpringerNature-43722)
  • -  History (SpringerNature-41172)

Medium

  • 1 online resource (XV, 237 pages 1 illustrations)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019760574

Rights Advisory

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  • Unrestricted online access
  • Open Access

Online Format

  • image
  • epub

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Chicago citation style:

Bennett, Rachel E, Author. Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, -1834. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019760574/.

APA citation style:

Bennett, R. E. (2018) Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, -1834. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019760574/.

MLA citation style:

Bennett, Rachel E, Author. Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, -1834. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019760574/>.