RT Book
T1 A global history of execution and the criminal corpse
T2 Palgrave historical studies in the criminal corpse and its afterlife
A2 Ward, Richard M. 1984-
A2 Spierenburg, Pieter 1948-2019
LA English
PP Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY
PB Palgrave Macmillan
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/81791613X
AB "Across many different times and places the criminal corpse has been harnessed for the ends of state power, medical science, criminal justice, and political subversion, amongst other things. This collection of essays for the first time examines execution practice and the punishment of the criminal corpse across a wide chronological and geographical span, ranging from eighteenth-century England to nineteenth-century India and twentieth-century Africa. 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 which forces us to rethink current metanarratives of penal practice and change"--
AB "Across many different times and places the criminal corpse has been harnessed for the ends of state power, medical science, criminal justice, and political subversion, amongst other things. This collection of essays for the first time examines execution practice and the punishment of the criminal corpse across a wide chronological and geographical span, ranging from eighteenth-century England to nineteenth-century India and twentieth-century Africa. 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 which forces us to rethink current metanarratives of penal practice and change"--
CN HV8551
SN 9781137443991
K1 Executions and executioners : History
K1 Criminals : Death : History
K1 Capital Punishment : History
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
K1 Hinrichtung : Geschichte
K1 Todesstrafe