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Found 4 from your keywords: subject="Punishment"
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A global history of execution and the criminal corpse
Ward, Richard

Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment. This book has two open access chapters under a CC BY license.

Edition
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ISBN/ISSN
9781137443991
Collation
313 p.
Series Title
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Call Number
364.6609 RIC a
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Remembering and disremembering the dead : posthumous punishment, harm and red…
Tomasini, Floris

This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once lived. In this way, this book highlights the vulnerability of th…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781137538284
Collation
vii, 103p. : ill.
Series Title
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Call Number
306.9 TOM r
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Promoting effective enforcement of the prohibition against corporal punishmen…
Veriava, Faranaaz

About the publicationThe prohibition against corporal punishment is an integral part of the broader transformation of South African education. The prohibition seeks to replace South Africa’s violent and authoritarian past with an ethos respectful of human dignity and bodily integrity.About the editors:Faranaaz Veriava has a BA LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand and a LLM in human ri…

Edition
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ISBN/ISSN
9781920538248
Collation
59 p.
Series Title
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Call Number
371.5420968 VER p
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The culture of capital punishment in Japan
Johnson, David T.

This open access book provides a comparative perspective on capital punishment in Japan and the United States. Alongside the US, Japan is one of only a few developed democracies in the world which retains capital punishment and continues to carry out executions on a regular basis. There are some similarities between the two systems of capital punishment but there are also many striking differen…

Edition
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ISBN/ISSN
9783030320867
Collation
XV, 125 p.
Series Title
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Call Number
364.660952 JOH c