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Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840: Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England de Peter King

Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840: Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England: Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife

Autor Peter King
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 dec 2015
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. 

This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two post-execution punishments, dissection and gibbeting, an integral part of sentences for murder. It traces the origins of the Act, and then explores the ways in which Act was actually put into practice. After identifying the dominance of penal dissection throughout the period, it looks at the abandonment of burning at the stake in the 1790s, the rapid decline of hanging in chains just after 1800, and the final abandonment of both dissection and gibbeting in 1832 and 1834. It concludes that the Act, by creating differentiation in levels of penalty, played an important role within the broader capital punishment system well into the nineteenth century. While eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century historians have extensively studied the ‘Bloody Code’ and the resulting interactions around the ‘Hanging Tree’, they have largely ignored an important dimension of the capital punishment system – the courts extensive use of aggravated and post-execution punishments. With this book, Peter King aims to rectify this neglected historical phenomenon.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137513601
ISBN-10: 1137513608
Pagini: 144
Ilustrații: XV, 212 p. 3 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. ‘Hanging Not Punishment Enough’; Attitudes to Aggravated Forms of Execution and the Making of the Murder Act 1690-1752.- Chapter 3. Patterns of Post-Execution Sentencing in England and Wales 1752-1834. The Murder Act in Operation.- Chapter 4. Changing Attitudes to Post-Execution Punishment 1752-1834.- Chapter 5.   Conclusion.- Index

Notă biografică

Peter King is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Leicester, UK. He has published three books and over thirty articles on the history of crime and justice and the history of poverty and welfare in the period 1700-1850. His publications include Crime, Justice and Discretion in England 1740-1820 (2003) and Crime and Law in England 1740-1840: Remaking Justice from the Margins (2006). 

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. 

This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two post-execution punishments, dissection and gibbeting, an integral part of sentences for murder. It traces the origins of the Act, and then explores the ways in which Act was actually put into practice. After identifying the dominance of penal dissection throughout the period, it looks at the abandonment of burning at the stake in the 1790s, the rapid decline of hanging in chains just after 1800, and the final abandonment of both dissection and gibbeting in 1832 and 1834. It concludes that the Act, by creating differentiation in levels of penalty, played an important role within the broader capital punishment system well into the nineteenth century. While eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century historians have extensively studied the ‘Bloody Code’ and the resulting interactions around the ‘Hanging Tree’, they have largely ignored an important dimension of the capital punishment system – the courts extensive use of aggravated and post-execution punishments. With this book, Peter King aims to rectify this neglected historical phenomenon.

Caracteristici

Provides the first substantial study of the role that punishing the criminal corpse played in seventeenth and eighteenth century English penal policy Analyses the development of attitudes, legislative initiatives and policies in relation to post-execution punishment Provides insight into this neglected area of the history of capital punishment Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras