Bureaucracy, "domesticated" elites, and the abolition of capital punishment: processes of state-formation and the number of executions in England and Habsburg Austria between 1700 and 1914

The paper argues that the introduction of bureaucracy civilized death penalty and brutal punishment. The study bases on a quantitative analysis of the numbers of death sentences and executions in England and Habsburg Austria from 1700 to 1914 and on a qualitative analysis of historical literature ab...

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Autor principal: Reicher, Dieter 1971- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2010
En:In: Crime, Law and Social Change 54(2010), 3/4, Seite 279-297
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