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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Carolyn Strange |
ISBN: | 0774805846 9780774805841 0774805854 9780774805858 |
OCLC Number: | 37631304 |
Description: | xii, 186 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Civilized people don't want to see that sort of thing: the decline of physical punishment in London, 1760-1840 / Greg T. Smith -- In place of death: transportation, penal practices, and the English state, 1770-1830 / Simon Devereaux -- 'Harshness and forbearance': the politics of pardons and the Upper Canada rebellion / Barry Wright -- Savage mercy: native culture and the modification of capital punishment in nineteenth-century British Columbia / Tina Loo -- Discretionary justice: political culture and the death penalty in New South Wales and Ontario, 1890-1920 / Carolyn Strange -- Punishment in late-twentieth-century Canada: an afterword / Anthony N. Doob. |
Responsibility: | edited by Carolyn Strange. |
Abstract:
These top scholars probe the discretionary use of power and inquire how it has been exercised to spare convicted criminals from the full might of the law.
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This thought-provoking and well-written book will be of particular interest to students of law, sociology, public policy, and criminal justice administration. -- Anna Leslie * Canadian Book Review Annual * Read more...
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