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Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
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Sarah Tarlow, Emma Battell Lowman

This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture.…

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978-3-319-77908-9
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oer.unej.ac.id
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Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834
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Rachel E. Bennett

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 …

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978-3-319-62018-3
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oer.unej.ac.id
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Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Dissecting the Criminal Corpse Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Mo…
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Elizabeth T. Hurren

Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room remained a medical mystery in early modern society. Dissecting the Criminal Corpse takes issue with the historical cliché of corpses dangling from the hangman’s rope in crim…

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978-1-137-58249-2
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oer.unej.ac.id
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Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840
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Peter King

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two post-execution punishments, dissection and gibbeting, an integral part of sentences for murder. It traces the origins of t…

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1
ISBN/ISSN
978-1-137-51361-8
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oer.unej.ac.id
Series Title
Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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