Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France

by Paul Friedland

Book Overview

From the early Middle Ages to the twentieth century, capital punishment in France, as in many other countries, was staged before large crowds of spectators. Paul Friedland traces the theory and practice of public executions over time, both from the perspective of those who staged these punishments as well as from the vantage point of the many thousands who came to 'see justice done'. While penal theorists often stressed that the fundamental purpose...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199592691
• ISBN13: 9780199592692
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.5"