Capital punishment for murder was abolished in Britain in 1965. At this time, the way people in Britain perceived and understood the death penalty had changed - it was an issue that had become increasingly controversial, high-profile and fraught with emotion. In order to understand why this was, it is necessary to examine how ordinary people learned about and experienced capital punishment.
Drawing on primary research, this book explores the cultural life of the death penalty in Britain in the twentieth century, including an exploration of the role of the popular press and a discussion of portrayals of the death penalty in plays, novels and films. Popular protest against capital punishment and public responses to and understandings of capital cases are also discussed, particularly in relation to conceptualisations of justice. Miscarriages of justice were significant to capital punishment's increasingly fraught nature in the mid twentieth-century and the book analyses the unsettling power of two such high profile miscarriages of justice. The final chapters consider the continuing relevance of capital punishment in Britain after abolition, including its symbolism and how people negotiate memories of the death penalty.
Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain is groundbreaking in its attention to the death penalty and the effect it had on everyday life and it is the only text on this era to place public and popular discourses about, and reactions to, capital punishment at the centre of the analysis. Interdisciplinary in focus and methodology, it will appeal to historians, criminologists, sociologists and socio-legal scholars.
Описание: Drawing on examples from Britain, France, and the United States, this book examines how scholars and scholarship found themselves mobilized to solve many problems created by modern warfare in World War I, and the many consequences of this for higher education which have lasted almost a century.
Описание: Rather than looking at the struggle between ideologies, this book looks at the struggle within those ideologies, arguing that the Western Mediterranean states were not simply the battlefields or the prizes of the struggle, but were active participants with goals of autonomy or neutrality.
Автор: Mabileau Название: Local Politics and Participation in Britain and France ISBN: 0521122872 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521122870 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4909.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Local participation can and does influence the political process. Local Politics and Participation in Britain and France, first published in 1990 provides a unique comparative study of the involvement of average citizens in local politics and government between national elections.
Описание: First published in 1978, Professor O`Brien`s Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 is an original and pioneering exercise in comparative and quantitative economic history.
Название: Britain, france and the entente cordiale since 1904 ISBN: 0230009026 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230009028 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Gathering many of the best-known names in the English-speaking world in the field of Anglo-French relations, this collection provides a survey for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying International Relations in the 20th century, starting with WWI and ending with the equally complex question of the second Iraq War.
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