A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse

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Ward, Richard (editor)
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English
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Abstract
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. This book has two open access chapters under a CC BY license.
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https://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/183279
Keywords
capital punishment; smugglers; history; suicides; war criminals; execution; traitors; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMK Criminal or forensic psychology; thema EDItEUR::L Law::LB International law::LBB Public international law::LBBZ Public international law: criminal law; thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNF Criminal law: procedure and offences
DOI
10.1057/9781137444011
ISBN
9781137443991
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publisher website
http://www.springernature.com/oabooks
Publication date and place
Basingstoke, 2015
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Series
Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife,
Pages
313

Chapters in this book

  • Chapter Introduction
    Granadino, Alan; Nygård, Stefan; Stadius, Peter (2022)
    "With a combined focus on social democrats in Northern and Southern Europe, this book crucially broadens our understanding of the transformation of European social democracy from the mid-1970s to the early-1990s. In doing ...
  • Chapter Introduction
    Ward, Richard (2015)
    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 ...
  • Chapter 3 The Gibbet in the Landscape
    Ward, Richard (2015)
    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 ...

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