A global history of execution and the criminal corpse. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Richard Ward, University of Sheffield, UK.
• Other Names: Ward, Richard, 1984-
• Contents: Foreword; Pieter Spierenburg; Introduction: A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse; Richard Ward: This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license via palgraveconnect.com; 1. Punishing the Dead: Execution and the Executed Body in Eighteenth-Century Ireland; James Kelly; 2. 'For the Benefit of Example': Crime-Scene Executions in England, 1720–1830; Steve Poole; 3. The Gibbet in the Landscape: Locating the Criminal Corpse in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England; Zoe Dyndor: This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license via palgraveconnect.com; 4. Never Equal before Death: Three Experiences of Dying as seen through Eighteenth-Century French Executions; Pascal Bastien; 5. The Ill-Treated Body: Punishing and Utilizing the Early Modern Suicide Corpse; Alexander Kästner and Evelyne Luef; 6. Execution and its Aftermath in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire; Clare Anderson; 7. Strangled by the Chinese and Kept 'Alive' by the British: Two Infamous Executions and the Discourse of Chinese Legal Despotism; Song-Chuan Chen; 8. Dismembering and Remembering the Body: Execution and Post-Execution Display in Africa, c.1870–2000; Stacey Hynd; 9. Burying the Past? The Post-Execution History of Nazi War Criminals; Caroline Sharples
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages), (2 illustrations)
• Subjects: 364.6609; Social History; Executions and executioners -- History; Criminals -- Death -- History; Capital punishment -- History; HISTORY / World; HISTORY / Modern / General; HISTORY / Social History; Modern/General; Criminal or forensic psychology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137444004; 1137444002
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.