TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bennett,Rachel E.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834
T2  - Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
SN  - 9783319620183
AV  - DA1-995 
U1  - 941 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Great Britain—History
KW  - Social history
KW  - Crime—Sociological aspects
KW  - Civilization—History
KW  - History
KW  - History of Britain and Ireland
KW  - Social History
KW  - Crime and Society
KW  - Cultural History
KW  - History of Science
N1  - Chapter 1: Introduction --  Part I: The Implementation of the Death Sentence in Scotland -- Chapter 2: Capital Punishment and the Scottish Criminal Justice System -- Chapter 3: Contextualising the Punishment of Death -- Chapter 4: Scottish Women and the Hangman’s Noose -- Part II: The Theatre of the Gallows in Scotland -- Chapter 5: The Spectacle of the Scaffold --  Chapter 6: A Fate Worse than Death? Dissection and the Criminal Corpse -- Chapter 7: Hanging in Chains: The Criminal Corpse on Display --  Chapter 8: Conclusion -- Index. ; Open Access
N2  - This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth century to date. Based upon an extensive gathering and analysis of previously untapped resources, it takes the reader on a journey from the courtrooms of Scotland to the theatre of the gallows. It introduces them to several of the malefactors who faced the hangman’s noose and explores the traditional hallmarks of the spectacle of the scaffold. It demonstrates that the period between 1740 and 1834 was one of discussion, debate and fundamental change in the use of the death sentence and how it was staged in practice. In addition, the study provides an innovative investigation of the post-mortem punishment of the criminal corpse. It offers the reader an insight into the scene at the foot of the gibbets from which criminal bodies were displayed, and around the dissection tables of Scotland’s main universities where criminal bodies were used as cadavers for anatomical demonstration. In doing so it reveals an intermediate stage in the long-term disappearance of public bodily punishment. 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62018-3
ER  -