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Author : WILLIAM. ANDREWS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033344835
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (448 download)
Download or read book OLD-TIME PUNISHMENTS written by WILLIAM. ANDREWS and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Andrews
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 9781620876183
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Medieval Punishments written by William Andrews and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The brank may be described simply as an iron framework; which was placed on the head, closing it in a kind of cage; it had in front a plate of iron, which, either sharpened or covered with spikes, was so situated as to be placed in the mouth of the victim, and if she attempted to move her tongue in any way whatever, it was certain to be shockingly injured. She thus suffered for telling her mind to some petty tyrant in office, or speaking plainly to a wrong-doer, or for taking to task a lazy, and perhaps a drunken husband.“ Dive into the macabre history of England and Old Europe in this treasure chest of historical punishments. In the pages of Medieval Punishments are punishments from a less enlightened period, creating a thoroughly researched historical document that sheds light on the evolution of society and how humans have maintained social order and addressed crime. In a town called Newcastle-on-Tyne, a drunkard cloak was a barrel that offenders were made to wear. In Anglo-Saxon times, each town was required to build stocks to hold breakers of the peace. To the Romans, beheading was considered the most honorable of deaths. It’s these details that make Medieval Punishments a compelling read for social historians and important component of human history.
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307819299
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Discipline and Punish written by Michel Foucault and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Author : Cesare Beccaria
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1584776382
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (847 download)
Download or read book An Essay on Crimes and Punishments written by Cesare Beccaria and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the fourth edition, which contains an additional text attributed to Voltaire. Originally published anonymously in 1764, Dei Delitti e Delle Pene was the first systematic study of the principles of crime and punishment. Infused with the spirit of the Enlightenment, its advocacy of crime prevention and the abolition of torture and capital punishment marked a significant advance in criminological thought, which had changed little since the Middle Ages. It had a profound influence on the development of criminal law in Europe and the United States.
Author : Sarah Tarlow
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319779087
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse written by Sarah Tarlow and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse in the medieval and early modern periods, chapters go on to review the histories of criminal justice, of medical history and of gibbeting under the Murder Act, and ends with some discussion of the afterlives of the corpse, in literature, folklore and in contemporary medical ethics. Using sophisticated insights from cultural history, archaeology, literature, philosophy and ethics as well as medical and crime history, this book is a uniquely interdisciplinary take on a fascinating historical phenomenon.
Author : Anne-Marie Cusac
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300155492
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Cruel and Unusual written by Anne-Marie Cusac and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America’s imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward criminals and punishment? What does it say about us? This book explores the cultural evolution of punishment practices in the United States. Anne-Marie Cusac first looks at punishment in the nation’s early days, when Americans repudiated Old World cruelty toward criminals and emphasized rehabilitation over retribution. This attitude persisted for some 200 years, but in recent decades we have abandoned it, Cusac shows. She discusses the dramatic rise in the use of torture and restraint, corporal and capital punishment, and punitive physical pain. And she links this new climate of punishment to shifts in other aspects of American culture, including changes in dominant religious beliefs, child-rearing practices, politics, television shows, movies, and more. America now punishes harder and longer and with methods we would have rejected as cruel and unusual not long ago. These changes are profound, their impact affects all our lives, and we have yet to understand the full consequences.
Author : George Ryley Scott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136191674
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book The History Of Torture written by George Ryley Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. Torture, an enduring and seemingly not declining aspect of man's relationship to his fellow man, is an enduring thread through human history. Whether it be practiced by primitive people, the ancient Greeks or the Catholic Church, whether it be ancient China, Japan, 1930's Germany, or Northern Ireland today, torture is alarmingly systematic and consistent in its methods. Impaling, burning, rack or wheel, mutilation, drawing and quartering, burning or hanging alive in chains. A very comprehensive and readable work.
Author : Manlio Bellomo
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813208149
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Common Legal Past of Europe, 1000–1800 written by Manlio Bellomo and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad history of the western European legal tradition. Bellomo discusses the great jurists who gave common law its intellectual vigor as well as the humanist jurists of the period.
Author : Alice Morse Earle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Curious Punishments of Bygone Days written by Alice Morse Earle and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Morse Earle was a social historian of great note at the turn of the century, and many of her books have lived on as well-researched and well-written texts of everyday life in Colonial America. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days was published in 1896. It is a catalog of early American crimes and their penalties, with chapters on the pillories, stocks, the scarlet letter, the ducking stool, discipline of authors and books (egad!), and four other horrifying examples of ways in which those who transgressed the laws of Colonial America were made to pay for their sins.
Author : Nancy Kollmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025133
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia written by Nancy Kollmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial account of criminal law in early modern Russia in a wider European and Eurasian context.
Author : Catalin Negru
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387911163
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)
Download or read book A History of the Apocalypse written by Catalin Negru and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every generation of people think that their problems are the most important ever. As history flows without interruption and doomsday scenarios fail, the following generations focus on their own contemporary events, ignoring or underestimating the past. In this way people always see "signs" in their times and the end of the world is constantly a fresh subject.
Author : John H. Langbein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226922618
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Torture and the Law of Proof written by John H. Langbein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Torture and the Law of Proof John H. Langbein explores the world of the thumbscrew and the rack, engines of torture authorized for investigating crime in European legal systems from medieval times until well into the eighteenth century. Drawing on juristic literature and legal records, Langbein's book, first published in 1977, remains the definitive account of how European legal systems became dependent on the use of torture in their routine criminal procedures, and how they eventually worked themselves free of it. The book has recently taken on an eerie relevance as a consequence of controversial American and British interrogation practices in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. In a new introduction, Langbein contrasts the "new" law of torture with the older European law and offers some pointed lessons about the difficulty of reconciling coercion with accurate investigation. Embellished with fascinating illustrations of torture devices taken from an eighteenth-century criminal code, this crisply written account will engage all those interested in torture's remarkable grip on European legal history.
Author : William Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bygone Punishments written by William Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : Scholastic Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780439979276
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (792 download)
Download or read book Cruel Crime and Painful Punishment written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: \* who was sentenced to death - by coffee? \* where you could be whipped for flying a kite? \* why a cockerel was burnt at the stake? Find out the truth about brutal school beatings, test you local policeman, and see if you can escape beheading in the Tower of London game.
Author : Hua Yu
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824863895
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book The Past and the Punishments written by Hua Yu and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1996-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To travel through these stories is to cross a landscape of stunning beauty and terrific cruelty, where expectations are subverted, where moral certainties are shattered, where gorgeously wrought surfaces beguile at the same time that acts of incredible brutality horrify. It is no wonder that Yu Hua’s stories caused a sensation when they first appeared in the 1980s. His work represents a sophisticated and often disturbing revolution in the Chinese literary tradition, reminiscent of the fiction of modernists like Kafka, Kawabata, Borges, and Robbe-Grillet, but drawing inspiration from several strains of traditional Chinese narrative as well. This is the first collection of short fiction by Yu Hua to appear in English. It takes us on a haunting and harrowing journey from classical China through the Cultural Revolution and into the new era of economic reform, exploding along the way our preconceived notions of what Chinese literature and culture are all about in the 1990s.
Author : Edward Peters
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520066304
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (663 download)
Download or read book Inquisition written by Edward Peters and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-04-14 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive volume is actually three histories in one: of the legal procedures, personnel, and institutions that shaped the inquisitorial tribunals from Rome to early modern Europe; of the myth of The Inquisition, from its origins with the anti-Hispanists and religious reformers of the sixteenth century to its embodiment in literary and artistic masterpieces of the nineteenth century; and of how the myth itself became the foundation for a "history" of the inquisitions.
Author : Victor M.. Rios
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081477637X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Punished written by Victor M.. Rios and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
