Expansion, Crisis, and Transformation: Changing Economies of Punishment in England, 1780-1850
The article discusses the evolution of state punishments in England from 1780 to 1850. Topics include how punishments through the use of infliction of pain to the body in public were replaced by imprisonment, the increase in the use of imprisonment, executions, whippings, and transportation in Engla...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2019
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Social justice
Year: 2019, Volume: 46, Issue: 4, Pages: 5-30 |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
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Summary: | The article discusses the evolution of state punishments in England from 1780 to 1850. Topics include how punishments through the use of infliction of pain to the body in public were replaced by imprisonment, the increase in the use of imprisonment, executions, whippings, and transportation in England during the period, and the reasons why the government of England favored imprisonment as a state punishment in the second half of the 19th century. |
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