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The Relationship between Crime and Punishment in 19th Century American Writing

Author : Jan H. Hauptmann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640215087
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Relationship between Crime and Punishment in 19th Century American Writing written by Jan H. Hauptmann and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Queen's University Belfast, language: English, abstract: This essay focuses on three American literary works of the 19th century: Nathaniel HAWTHORNE’s famous novel The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, Herman MELVILLE’s short story Benito Cereno in 1855, and Mark TWAIN’s Pudd’nhead Wilson between 1893 and 1894. While the younger works Benito Cereno and Pudd’nhead Wilson are obviously concerned with the interrelation of blacks and whites, as well as with slavery and its effects on the American society, The Scarlet Letter primarily deals with the Puritan way of life and the law system in New England. Although a direct comparison of the three works seems to be problematical due to their different subject matters, the essay will figure out how crime and punishment is depicted in their broader frame. HAWTHORNE’s Scarlet Letter is set in the 17th century in Salem, Massachusetts – the stronghold of New England’s Puritanism. The main character of the novel, Hester Prynne, is mother of an illegitimate child (Pearl) and thus a sinner that, according to the strict Puritan laws, has to be ostracised and punished. Her actual punishment is determined by the town’s magistracy and consists in the duty to carry a scarlet letter A on her clothes. The adulteress is also presented to an assembly of townspeople on the scaffold of the pillory. Midst of the crowd that is mocking the sinner is Hester’s missed husband – Roger Prynne – as well as the person whom she committed adultery with – the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Ironically enough, Dimmesdale is regarded as an extraordinary exemplary Puritan priest by both, the townspeople and the town’s magistracy . His guilt remains undiscovered until the end of the novel. Roger Prynne is a stranger at the beginning, who unexpectedly appears at the market-place out of the wilderness . When Hester spots him on the scaffold, he signalises her not to reveal his identity as her husband and starts an indirect inquiry about her, trying to figure out why she is set up to public shame. A townsman congratulates the newcomer to be back in civilisation after being “a wanderer sorely against [his] own will” and explains what had happened in town and why Hester Prynne is punished on the scaffold.

Vengeance and Justice

Author : Edward L. Ayers
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780195039887
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Vengeance and Justice written by Edward L. Ayers and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1986 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the major elements of southern crime and punishment at a time that saw the formation of the fundamental patterns of class and race, Ayers studies the inner workings of the police, prison, and judicial systems, and the nature of crime.

John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

Author : Edward Watts
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1611484219
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Book Synopsis John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture by : Edward Watts

Download or read book John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture written by Edward Watts and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture is a critical reassessment of American novelist, editor, critic, and activist John Neal, arguing for his importance to the ongoing reassessment of the American Renaissance and the broader cultural history of the Nineteenth Century. Contributors (including scholars from the United States, Germany, England, Italy, and Israel) present Neal as an innovative literary stylist, penetrating cultural critic, pioneering regionalist, and vital participant in the business of letters in America over his sixty-year career.

Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Author : Erin Sheley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474450121
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries written by Erin Sheley and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through interdisciplinary readings of a range of literary and legal texts across a 200-year period, this book uncovers how the cultural narrative affected the development of the law itself in the 18th and 19th centuries in three case studies: adultery, child criminality and rape testimony.

Vengeance and Justice

Author : Edward L. Ayers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vengeance and Justice written by Edward L. Ayers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An excellent and valuable study." --The Journal of Southern History . "This book offers a number of compelling and even original theories....It is also exceptionally well written."--Louisiana History. "An elegantly designed study, original and persuasive."--Kirkus Reviews. This book explores the major elements of Southern crime and punishment at a time that saw the formation of the fundamental patterns of class and race that have long shaped American crime and justice. Ayers studies the inner workings of the police, prison, and judicial systems, and the nature of crime during the period.

The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: A-De

Author : Wilbur R. Miller
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412988764
Total Pages : 2713 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: A-De written by Wilbur R. Miller and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 2713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and authoratative four-volume work surveys the history and philosophy of crime, punishment, and criminal justice institutions in America from colonial times to the present.

Crime and Punishment in Latin America

Author : Ricardo D. Salvatore
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822327448
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (274 download)

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Book Synopsis Crime and Punishment in Latin America by : Ricardo D. Salvatore

Download or read book Crime and Punishment in Latin America written by Ricardo D. Salvatore and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVEssays in collection argue that Latin American legal institutions were both mechanisms of social control and unique arenas for ordinary people to contest government policies and resist exploitation./div

Literary Executions

Author : John Cyril Barton
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421413329
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Literary Executions written by John Cyril Barton and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Literary Executions, John Barton analyzes nineteenth-century representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States. The author creates a generative dialogue between artistic relics and legal history. Novels, short stories, poems, and creative nonfiction engage with legislative reports, trial transcripts, legal documents, newspaper and journal articles, treatises, and popular books (like The Record of Crimes and The Gallows, the Prison, and the Poor House), all of which participated in the debate over capital punishment. Barton focuses on several canonical figures--James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Theodore Dreiser--and offers new readings of their work in light of the death penalty controversy. Barton also gives close attention to a host of then-popular-but-now-forgotten writers--particularly John Neal, Slidell MacKenzie, William Gilmore Simms, Sylvester Judd, and George Lippard--whose work helped shape or was in turn shaped by the influential anti-gallows movement. As illustrated in the book's epigraph by Samuel Johnson -- "Depend upon it Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully" -- Barton argues that the high stakes of capital punishment dramatize the confrontation between the citizen-subject and sovereign authority. In bringing together the social and the aesthetic, Barton traces the emergence of the modern State's administration of lawful death. The book is intended primarily for literary scholars, but cultural and legal historians will also find value in it, as will anyone interested in the intersections among law, culture, and the humanities"--

Crime and Punishment in America

Author : David B. Wolcott
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438126891
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Crime and Punishment in America written by David B. Wolcott and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first incident of petty theft to modern media piracy, crime and punishment have been a part of every society. However, the structure and values of a particular society shape both the incidences of crime and the punishment of criminals. When the United States became an independent nation, politicians and civilians began the process of deciding which systems of punishment were appropriate for dealing with crimea process that continues to this day. Crime and Punishment in America examines the development of crime and punishment in the United Statesfrom the criminal justice practices of American Indians and the influence of colonists to the mistreatment of slaves, as well as such current criminal issues as the response to international terrorism.

The Literature of American Legal History

Author : William Nelson
Publisher : Beard Books
ISBN 13 : 1587982803
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book The Literature of American Legal History written by William Nelson and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Republishes articles by two senior legal historians. Besides summarizing what has now become classical literature in the field, it offers illuminating insight into what it means to be a professional legal historian.

An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

Author : Cesare Beccaria
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1584776382
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (847 download)

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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.

The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America

Author : Wilbur R. Miller
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1412988780
Total Pages : 2657 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Book Synopsis The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America by : Wilbur R. Miller

Download or read book The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America written by Wilbur R. Miller and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 2657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several encyclopedias overview the contemporary system of criminal justice in America, but full understanding of current social problems and contemporary strategies to deal with them can come only with clear appreciation of the historical underpinnings of those problems. Thus, this five-volume work surveys the history and philosophy of crime, punishment, and criminal justice institutions in America from colonial times to the present. It covers the whole of the criminal justice system, from crimes, law enforcement and policing, to courts, corrections and human services. Among other things, this encyclopedia: explicates philosophical foundations underpinning our system of justice; charts changing patterns in criminal activity and subsequent effects on legal responses; identifies major periods in the development of our system of criminal justice; and explores in the first four volumes - supplemented by a fifth volume containing annotated primary documents - evolving debates and conflicts on how best to address issues of crime and punishment. Its signed entries in the first four volumes--supplemented by a fifth volume containing annotated primary documents--provide the historical context for students to better understand contemporary criminological debates and the contemporary shape of the U.S. system of law and justice.

Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace

Author : Daniel A. Cohen
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558495296
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace written by Daniel A. Cohen and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study, Daniel A. Cohen explores a major cultural shift embodied in hundreds of early New England crime publications. Tracing the declining authority of Puritan ministers, he shows how the arbiters of an increasingly pluralistic literary marketplace gradually supplanted pious execution sermons with last-speech broadsides, gallows verses, criminal autobiographies, trial reports, newspaper stories, and romantic docudramas. Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace probes the forgotten origins of our modern mass media's preoccupation with crime and punishment.

An Organ of Murder

Author : Courtney E. Thompson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978813082
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book An Organ of Murder written by Courtney E. Thompson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2022 Cheiron Book Prize An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing in particular on the influence of phrenology. In the United States, phrenology shaped the production of medico-legal knowledge around crime, the treatment of the criminal within prisons and in public discourse, and sociocultural expectations about the causes of crime. The criminal was phrenology’s ideal research and demonstration subject, and the courtroom and the prison were essential spaces for the staging of scientific expertise. In particular, phrenology constructed ways of looking as well as a language for identifying, understanding, and analyzing criminals and their actions. This work traces the long-lasting influence of phrenological visual culture and language in American culture, law, and medicine, as well as the practical uses of phrenology in courts, prisons, and daily life.

Literary Executions

Author : John Cyril Barton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781421429267
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Literary Executions written by John Cyril Barton and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines literary and legal sources to document thoughts and feelings about capital punishment in the United States over the long nineteenth century.Drawing from legal and extralegal discourse but focusing on imaginative literature, Literary Executions examines representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States over the long nineteenth century. John Cyril Barton creates a generative dialogue between artistic relics and legal history. He looks to novels, short stories, poems, and creative nonfiction as well as legislative reports, trial transcripts, legal documents, newspaper and journal articles, treatises, and popular books (like The Record of Crimes, A Defence of Capital Punishment, and The Gallows, the Prison, and the Poor House), all of which were part of the debate over the death penalty.Barton focuses on several canonical figures-James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Theodore Dreiser-and offers new readings of their work in light of the death penalty controversy. Barton also gives close attention to a host of then-popular-but-now-forgotten writers-particularly John Neal, Slidell MacKenzie, William Gilmore Simms, Sylvester Judd, and George Lippard-whose work helped shape or was shaped by the influential anti-gallows movement. Analyzing the tension between sovereignty and social responsibility in a democratic republic, Barton argues that the high stakes of capital punishment dramatize the confrontation between the citizen-subject and sovereign authority in its starkest terms. In bringing together the social and the aesthetic, Barton shows how legal forms informed literary forms and traces the emergence of the modern State in terms of the administration of lawful death.By engaging the politics and poetics of capital punishment, Literary Executions contends that the movement to abolish the death penalty in the United States should be seen as an important part of the context that brought about the flowering of the American Renaissance during the antebellum period and that influenced literature later in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Conversations with Leon Forrest

Author : Leon Forrest
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578069903
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (699 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Leon Forrest written by Leon Forrest and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interviews in which African-American author Leon Forrest discusses his life, works, artistic vision, and more.

Crime and Punishment in America

Author : Elliott Currie
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250024218
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Crime and Punishment in America written by Elliott Currie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that a policy of mass incarceration is ineffective and that prison expenditures could have greater impact on criminal violence if spent on prevention and rehabilitation programs.