The Spectacle of Suffering: Executions and the Evolution of Repression: From a Preindustrial metropolis to the European Experience - Rilegato

Spierenburg, Pieter

 
9780521261869: The Spectacle of Suffering: Executions and the Evolution of Repression: From a Preindustrial metropolis to the European Experience
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ISBN 10: 0521261864 ISBN 13: 9780521261869
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1984

Sinossi

Pieter Spierenburg traces the long period of evolution that gave rise to the modern debate about punishment, and relates it to the development of Western European society.

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Descrizione del libro

Present-day unease about the treatment of lawbreakers has deep historical roots. Pieter Spierenburg traces the long period of evolution that gave rise to the modern debate about punishment, and relates it to the development of Western European society. He argues that two elements, the public character of punishment and its infliction of physical suffering, were originally at the heart of the penal system.

Contenuti

Preface; 1. The emergence of criminal justice; 2. The actors: executioners and their status; 3. The stagers: the authorities and the dramatisation of executions; 4. The watchers: spectators at the scaffold; 5. The victims: delinquents and their penalties in Republican Amsterdam; 6. The disappearance of public executions; Conclusion; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Editore
Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione
1984
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0521261864
ISBN 13 
9780521261869
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
286
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
Avery
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