Penal practice and culture, 1500-1900 : punishing the English / edited by Simon Devereaux and Paul Griffiths.

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

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Corrections -- England -- History.

Punishment -- England -- History.

Violence -- England -- History.

Social control -- England -- History.

Social history.

Introduction: punishing the English

1. Shame and pain: themes and variations in Tudor punishments

2. Dead men talking: truth, texts and the scaffold in early modern England

3. Bodies and souls in Norwich: punishing petty crime, 1540-1700

4. Punishing pardon: some thoughts on the origins of penal transportation

5. Public punishment and the Manx Ecclesiastical Courts during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

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7. The Grotian movement: natural penal rights and republicanism

8. The problem of punishment in the eighteenth-century England

9. Streets of shame? The crowd and public punishments in London, 1700-1820

10. Peel, pardon and punishment: the recorder's report revisited

11. I could hang anything you can bring before me: England's willing executioners in 1883.

Includes index.

0333997409

x, 319 p. : ill.