RT Book
T1 Execution, state and society in England, 1660-1900
T2 Studies in legal history
A1 Devereaux, Simon Paul Ross 1966-
LA English
PP Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia New Delhi, India Singapore
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1853725714
AB "This book charts the history of execution laws and practices in the era of the "Bloody Code" and their extraordinary transformation by 1900. Innovative and comprehensive, this work will find an audience with scholars interested in the history of crime and punishment in England"
AB This book provides the first comprehensive account of execution practices in England and their extraordinary transformation from 1660 to 1900. Agonizing execution rituals were once common. Male traitors were hanged, disembowelled while still alive, then decapitated and quartered. Female traitors were burned alive. And common criminals slowly choked to death beneath wooden crossbeams erected at the margins of towns. Some of their bodies were either left to rot on roadside gibbets or dissected by anatomy instructors. Two centuries later, only murderers and traitors were executed - both by hanging - and they died alone, usually quickly, and behind prison walls. In this major contribution to the history of crime and punishment in England, Simon Devereaux reveals how urban growth, and the unique public culture it produced, challenged and largely displaced those traditional elites who valued the old 'Bloody Code' as an instrument of their rule
CN KD7885.C3
SN 9781009392150
SN 9781009392105
K1 1500 bis heute
K1 Modern period, c 1500 onwards
K1 Capital Punishment : England : History
K1 Criminal justice, Administration of : Social aspects : England : History
K1 Executions and executioners : England : History
K1 Crime : England : History
K1 HISTORY / Social History
K1 LAW / Legal History
K1 Legal History
K1 Penology & punishment
K1 Rechtsgeschichte
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
K1 Social & Cultural History
K1 Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
K1 Strafrechtswissenschaft (Pönologie)
K1 England
K1 England : Hinrichtung : Todesstrafe : Religion : Säkularisierung : Reform : Gesetz : Landesverrat : Mord : Geschichte 1660-1900