Screen LibraryCapital punishment in twentieth-century Britain : audience, justice, memory /
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge SOLON explorations in crime and criminal justice histories
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 187 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780415622448 (hardback) : 0415622441 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | HV8699 |
| CLC: | D956.19 |
| Call Number: | D956.19/S438 |
| Contents: | Capital punishment since 1868 -- Audience, publicity and emotion -- Trial and execution as entertainment -- Popular protest against execution -- Public responses to capital punishment -- Haunted by the ghosts: Edith Thompson and Timothy Evans -- Penal currents in the post abolition era -- Negotiating memories of capital punishment. |