The Spectacle of Suffering: Executions and the Evolution of Repression; From a Preindustrial Metropolis to the European Experience

1986/06/01 by Julius R. Ruff, Pieter Spierenburg · 3 citations
Social Sciences · #Computer science #Criminal justice #Criminology #History #Index (typography) #Italian Fascism and Post-war Society #Law #Law in Society and Culture #Political science #Sociology #Spectacle

paper · doi:10.2307/1869169

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Abstract

Preface 1. The emergence of criminal justice 2. The actors: executioners and their status 3. The stagers: the authorities and the dramatisation of executions 4. The watchers: spectators at the scaffold 5. The victims: delinquents and their penalties in Republican Amsterdam 6. The disappearance of public executions Conclusion Appendices Notes Bibliography Index.

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