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The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History /

"From Confederation to the partial abolition of the death penalty a century later, defendants convicted of sexually motivated killings and sexually violent homicides in Canada were more likely than any other condemned criminals to be executed for their crimes. Despite the emergence of psychiatr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Strange, Carolyn, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Politics of the Death Penalty and the Problem of Sex Murder
  • Sex Fiends and the Death Penalty at the Turn of Canada's Century
  • Contesting Convictions and Questioning Culpability between the Wars
  • Sexual Psychopathy and Penal Severity in the Post-War Era
  • Sexual Psychopathy, Insanity, and the Death Penalty under Scrutiny in the 1950s
  • Sex Murder in the Sixties and the Demise of the Death Penalty.