Qualities of mercy : justice, punishment, and discretion /

Qualities of Mercy deals with the history of mercy in criminal justice. The writers probe the discretionary use of power and examine how it has been exercised to spare convicted criminals from the full might of the law. Looking at England, Canada, and Australia in periods when both capital and corpo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Strange, Carolyn, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver [B.C.] : UBC Press, Ã1996.
Temas:
Punishment > Great Britain > History.
Punishment > Canada > History.
Punishment > Australia > History.
Peines > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Peines > Canada > Histoire.
Peines > Australie > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Punishment.
Strafe
Geschichte
Aufsatzsammlung
Todesstrafe
Leibesstrafe
Australia.
Canada.
Great Britain.
Kanada
Groḃritannien
Australien
USA.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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