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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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Crime, law and social change
Year: 2010, Volume: 54, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 279-297 |
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