Execution, state and society in England, 1660-1900

• Verfasst von: Devereaux, Simon Paul Ross [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Execution, state and society in England, 1660-1900
• Verf.angabe: Simon Devereaux (University of Victoria, British Columbia)
• Verlagsort: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA ; Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: xviii, 391 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Diagramme
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Studies in legal history
• ISBN: 978-1-009-39215-0
• ISBN: 978-1-009-39210-5
• Schlagwörter: (g)England / (s)Hinrichtung / (s)Todesstrafe / (s)Religion / (s)Säkularisierung / (s)Reform / (s)Gesetz / (s)Landesverrat / (s)Mord / (z)Geschichte 1660-1900
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Devereaux, Simon Paul Ross, 1966 - : Execution, state and society in England, 1660-1900. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023. - Online-Ressource
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Social History
• Sach-SW: LAW / Legal History
• Sach-SW: Legal history
• Sach-SW: Penology & punishment
• Sach-SW: Rechtsgeschichte
• Sach-SW: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
• Sach-SW: Social & cultural history
• Sach-SW: Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• Sach-SW: Strafrechtswissenschaft (Pönologie)
• Geograph. SW: England
• Geograph. SW: England
• Zeit-SW: 1500 bis heute
• Zeit-SW: Modern period, c 1500 onwards
• K10plus-PPN: 1853725714

Abstract

"This book charts the history of execution laws and practices in the era of the "Bloody Code" and their extraordinary transformation by 1900. Innovative and comprehensive, this work will find an audience with scholars interested in the history of crime and punishment in England"

Abstract

This book provides the first comprehensive account of execution practices in England and their extraordinary transformation from 1660 to 1900. Agonizing execution rituals were once common. Male traitors were hanged, disembowelled while still alive, then decapitated and quartered. Female traitors were burned alive. And common criminals slowly choked to death beneath wooden crossbeams erected at the margins of towns. Some of their bodies were either left to rot on roadside gibbets or dissected by anatomy instructors. Two centuries later, only murderers and traitors were executed - both by hanging - and they died alone, usually quickly, and behind prison walls. In this major contribution to the history of crime and punishment in England, Simon Devereaux reveals how urban growth, and the unique public culture it produced, challenged and largely displaced those traditional elites who valued the old 'Bloody Code' as an instrument of their rule