Buch

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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Buchreihe	:	Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	16. 12. 2015
Seiten	:	212
Einband	:	Gebunden
Höhe	:	210 mm
Breite	:	148 mm
Gewicht	:	428 g
ISBN	:	9781137513601
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Autorinformation

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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). 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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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

Deine Buchhandlung

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