Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834 / by Rachel E. Bennett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bennett., Author.

Contributor:

Rachel E..

Series:

Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife, 2947-6356

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History.

Great Britain.

Social history.

Crime--Sociological aspects.

Crime.

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

Science--History.

Science.

History of Britain and Ireland.

Social History.

Crime and Society.

Cultural History.

History of Science.

Local Subjects:

History of Britain and Ireland.

Social History.

Crime and Society.

Cultural History.

History of Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XV, 237 p. 1 illus.)

Edition:

1版. 2018.

Place of Publication:

2017.

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth century to date. Based upon an extensive gathering and analysis of previously untapped resources, it takes the reader on a journey from the courtrooms of Scotland to the theatre of the gallows. It introduces them to several of the malefactors who faced the hangman's noose and explores the traditional hallmarks of the spectacle of the scaffold. It demonstrates that the period between 1740 and 1834 was one of discussion, debate and fundamental change in the use of the death sentence and how it was staged in practice. In addition, the study provides an innovative investigation of the post-mortem punishment of the criminal corpse. It offers the reader an insight into the scene at the foot of the gibbets from which criminal bodies were displayed, and around the dissection tables of Scotland's main universities where criminal bodies were used as cadavers for anatomical demonstration. In doing so it reveals an intermediate stage in the long-term disappearance of public bodily punishment. .

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part I: The Implementation of the Death Sentence in Scotland

Chapter 2: Capital Punishment and the Scottish Criminal Justice System

Chapter 3: Contextualising the Punishment of Death

Chapter 4: Scottish Women and the Hangman's Noose

Part II: The Theatre of the Gallows in Scotland

Chapter 5: The Spectacle of the Scaffold

Chapter 6: A Fate Worse than Death? Dissection and the Criminal Corpse

Chapter 7: Hanging in Chains: The Criminal Corpse on Display

Chapter 8: Conclusion

Index. .

Notes:

CC BY

ISBN:

9783319620183

3319620185

OCLC:

1028662331

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access