Table of Contents: Qualities of mercy :

Other Authors:	Strange, Carolyn,
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Vancouver [B.C.] : UBC Press, ©1996.
Subjects:	Punishment > History. > Great Britain Punishment > History. > Canada Punishment > History. > Australia Peines > Histoire. > Grande-Bretagne Peines > Histoire. > Canada Peines > Histoire. > Australie SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology. Punishment. Strafe. Geschichte. Aufsatzsammlung. Todesstrafe. Leibesstrafe. Australia. Canada. Great Britain. Kanada. USA. Großbritannien.
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Table of Contents:

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.