This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century. Through the presentation of primary so

In the years between 1750 and 1868, English criminal justice underwent significant changes. The two most crucial developments were the gradual establishment of

While it is easy to assume that the system of criminal justice in nineteenth-century England was not unlike the modern one, in many ways it was very different,

This book details how capital punishment violates universal human rights and traces the evolution of the world's understanding of torture.

Royer examines the changing ritual of execution across five centuries and discovers a shift both in practice and in the message that was sent to the population