The Crusade Against Capital Punishment in Great Britain
Author: Elizabeth Ann Orman Tuttle
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Elizabeth Ann Orman Tuttle
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Elizabeth Ann Orman Tuttle
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Brian P. Block
Publisher: Waterside Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1872870473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The definitive account of the long road to abolition in the UK by two highly respected commentators - a classic of the genre.
Author: Elizabeth Orman Tuttle
Publisher:
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 177
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James B. Christoph
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-03-08
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 1000819000
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1962, Capital Punishment and British Politics illuminates the process of political decision-making in Britain by analysing the complex activities that led to the passage of a major piece of social legislation, the Homicide Act of 1957. His case study, based on dozens of interviews, reveals in detail the workings of British politics and assesses the impact of the clash of ideas and interests on governmental policy. After surveying the legal and historical antecedents of the controversy surrounding the Act, the author traces the development from the abortive attempt to abolish the death penalty under the Labour Government through the spectacular murder cases of the early fifties to the compromise legislation successfully launched by a Conservative Government. Throughout the book analysis is coupled with description, and the concluding chapter demonstrates how this single case contained in microcosm many of the basic elements and dilemmas of the British political process. This fascinating study will be of great interest to students of politics and social legislation everywhere.
Author: Peter Hodgkinson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1351887505
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The essays selected for this volume develop conventional abolition discourse and explore the conceptual framework through which abolition is understood and posited. Of particular interest is the attention given to an integral but often forgotten element of the abolition debate: alternatives to capital punishment. The volume also provides an account of strategies employed by the abolition community which challenges tired methodologies and offers a level of transparency previously unseen. This collection tackles complex but fundamental components of the capital punishment debate using empirical data and expert observations and is essential reading for those wishing to comprehend the fundamental issues which underpin capital punishment discourse.
Author: Harry Potter
Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Comprehensive history of capital punishment in England which shows how and why the Church of England repeatedly fought against its abolition.
Author: Harry Potter
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780826406262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lizzie Seal
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-03-05
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1136250727
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.