Capital punishment in twentieth-century Britain : audience, justice, memory / Lizzie Seal.

Seal, Lizzie, 1977-
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.
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Part of the series Routledge SOLON explorations in crime and criminal justice histories;Routledge SOLON explorations in crime and criminal justice histories.
Notes:

  • Capital punishment since 1868 — Audience, publicity and emotion — Trial and execution as entertainment — Popular protest against execution — Public responses to capital punishment — Haunted by the ghosts: Edith Thompson and Timothy Evans — Penal currents in the post abolition era — Negotiating memories of capital punishment.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Requested by deVries, J

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