Electronic Books

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Dissecting the Criminal Corpse : Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England

Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. ...

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Estimates of Cost of Crime : History, Methodologies, and Implications

With the emergence and development of quantitative methods in economics and statistics, the exercise of calculating costs ...

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Executing Magic in the Modern Era

This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking ...

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Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse

This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in ...

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Improving Interagency Collaboration, Innovation and Learning in Criminal Justice Systems Supporting Offender Rehabilitation

This book to improve collaboration between criminal justice and welfare services in order to help prepare offenders for ...

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Large-Scale Group Decision-Making : State-to-the-Art Clustering and Consensus Paths / Su-Min Yu, Zhi-Jiao Du

The proposed consensus models focus on the treatment of non-cooperative behaviors in the consensus-reaching process and explores ...

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Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840

This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons ...

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Remembering and Disremembering the Dead

This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and ...

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The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan

This book provides a comparative perspective on capital punishment in Japan and the United States. Alongside the US, Japan ...

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The Dual Nature of Legitimacy in the Prison Environment

explores the dual nature of legitimacy in prison. It examines the inter-connectivity between audience perception of legitimacy ...

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The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth ...

Lee mas
Violence in Europe

Taking the sociocultural long view, Violence in Europe analyzes the prevalence and role of violence—from street crime to ...

Lee mas
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