Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Author: Erin Sheley

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-04-02

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1474450121

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Through interdisciplinary readings of a range of literary and legal texts across a 200-year period, this book uncovers how the cultural narrative affected the development of the law itself in the 18th and 19th centuries in three case studies: adultery, child criminality and rape testimony.

Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse

Author: Sarah Tarlow

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-05-17

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 3319779087

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This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse in the medieval and early modern periods, chapters go on to review the histories of criminal justice, of medical history and of gibbeting under the Murder Act, and ends with some discussion of the afterlives of the corpse, in literature, folklore and in contemporary medical ethics. Using sophisticated insights from cultural history, archaeology, literature, philosophy and ethics as well as medical and crime history, this book is a uniquely interdisciplinary take on a fascinating historical phenomenon.

Theoretical Criminology from Modernity to Post-Modernism
Theoretical Criminology from Modernity to Post-Modernism

Author: Wayne Morrison

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-18

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 113542702X

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This book incorporates many of the exciting debates in the social sciences and philosophy of knowledge concerning the issues of modernity and post-modernism. It sets out a new project for criminology, a criminology of modernity, and offers a sustained critique of theorizing without a concern for social totalities. This book is designed to place criminological theory at the cutting edge of contemporary debates. Wayne Morrison reviews the history and present state of criminology and identifies a range of social problems and large scale social processes which must be addressed if the subject is to attain intellectual commitment. This book marks a new development in criminological texts and will serve a valuable function not only for students and academics but for all those interested in the project of understanding crime in contemporary conditions.