A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse
Description
Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment. The chapters 'Introduction: A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse' and 'The Gibbet in the Landscape: Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England' are open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Keywords
HistorySocial HistoryWorldModernLawCriminal LawPsychologyForensic PsychologyPsychopathology
2015Book
Author(s)Richard Ward
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137443991
LanguageEnglish
