Punishments of Former DaysWaterside Press, 1992 - 175 páginas A book written in 1939 and later discovered and rescued by Waterside Press - that gives a detailed account of the often barbaric or shameful punishments used in former times. Since this book was first published in the 1950s the description it contains of the history of crime and punishment in Britain over the previous 200 years or so has attracted interest across a wide spectrum. The work was reprinted in 1992 by Waterside Press having been out of print for decades. The contents cover a wide range of historic punishments from outlawry to the ducking stool, the pillory, stocks and whirligig to the branding iron and scold's bridle. From mutilation and torture to sanctuary and the emergence of private and then public prisons this is an essential addition to any criminal justice collection - imbued as it is by the comments of the author from the perspective of his own era, which provides for fascination in itself. Printed in the original style and format - together with a large number of the original illustrations. Quite absorbing - The book transports the reader to a time when punishments were often brutal, unrestrained and unregulated by standards, fairness or consistency. It also looks at the sometimes strange logic that was applied by judges, justices of the peace and those charged with carrying out the task. |
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Prisons in the 17th 18th and 19th centuries | 26 |
Children and Punishments | 41 |
Outlawry | 50 |
The Ordeal | 56 |
Whipping | 108 |
Mutilation | 116 |
Burning to Death | 119 |
Torture | 122 |
Peine Forte et Dure Pressing to Death | 124 |
The Branding Iron | 129 |
The Scolds Bridle or Brank | 132 |
Bodyirons | 135 |
Benefit of Clergy | 62 |
Sanctuary | 66 |
A Yorkshire Sanctuary | 74 |
Deodands | 81 |
The Gallows and the Gibbet | 83 |
Hanging at Tyburn | 89 |
The Pillory | 93 |
The Stocks | 100 |
The Ducking Stool | 104 |
Punishments in a Yorkshire Town | 137 |
Transportation | 144 |
The Treadmill the Crank and Shotdrill | 151 |
Oakumpicking | 158 |
Miscellaneous Punishments | 163 |
Boiling to Death 2 Englishry 3 Fines 4 Forfeitures 5 Penance | 167 |
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Términos y frases comunes
abolished accused appears Assizes benefit of clergy Beverley Minster Bishop boys branded brank Calverley carried Castle cells CHAPTER Church committed constable convicted Court crime criminal cruelty debtors deodands Doncaster ducked ducking-stool eighteenth century England English escaped evil execution felony flogging forfeiture gallows gaol gaoler gibbet given guilty H. V. Morton Halifax Halifax Gibbet hand hanged Henry VIII House of Correction hulks imprisonment inflicted iron John John Howard Judges jury Justices King King's labour later London Lord Market Place murder Newgate nineteenth century offences Old Bailey ordeal ordered outlaw outlawry parish passed penal penalty persons Pettifer pillory police poor prison privilege Quarter Sessions received record reign sanctuary scold sentence of death shews statute stealing stocks stool to-day torture town transportation treadmill treason trial Tyburn vagrants victim Wakefield House Wakefield Prison West Riding whipping post woman women York Castle Yorkshire
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A passion for privacy: Untersuchungen zur Genese der bürgerlichen ... Christoph Heyl Vista de fragmentos - 2004 |
A passion for privacy: Untersuchungen zur Genese der bürgerlichen ... Christoph Heyl Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |