Introduction: A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1137443991
• ISBN-13: 978-1137444011
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 364.6609 Penology
• Thông tin xuất bản: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
• Mô tả vật lý: 313
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 188006
• Chủ đề: 1. Criminal law & procedure; 2. Criminal or forensic psychology; 3. General & world history; 4. International criminal law; 5. Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; 6. Social & cultural history

Tóm tắt

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.