Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing AG,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its Afterlife Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- List of Tables
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Exploring the Historiography
- Structuring the Narrative
- Conclusion
- Part I The Implementation of the Death Sentence in Scotland
- Chapter 2 Capital Punishment and the Scottish Criminal Justice System
- The Death Sentence in Scots Law
- Long-Term Trends in Scottish Capital Punishment
- Geography of Capital Punishment
- Capital Punishment and the Scottish Murderer
- Capital Punishment and Scottish Property Offenders
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3 Contextualising the Punishment of Death
- Executions Following the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion
- Capital Punishment in the 1780s and the Crisis of Transportation in Scotland
- Executions in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4 Scottish Women and the Hangman's Noose
- Homicide
- Infanticide
- Property Offences
- Conclusion
- Part II The Theatre of the Gallows in Scotland
- Chapter 5 The Spectacle of the Scaffold
- The Gallows Protagonists
- Staging the Public Execution
- Scottish Execution Practices
- The Punishment for Treason
- Post-Mortem Punishment
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6 A Fate Worse than Death? Dissection and the Criminal Corpse
- Belief, Anxiety and the Dead Body
- Medical Beliefs About the Dead Body
- Dissection and the Criminal Corpse
- The Case of William Burke
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7 Hanging in Chains: The Criminal Corpse on Display
- Hanging in Chains as a Punishment
- The Gibbeted Malefactor
- Chronology of Hanging in Chains
- Locating the Gibbet
- Longevity of the Gibbet
- The Case of James Stewart
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8 Conclusion
- Index.