Front Matter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 3
6. Civilized People Don’t Want to See That Kind of Thing: The Decline of Public Physical Punishment in London, 1760-1840 21
7. In Place of Death: Transportation, Penal Practices, and the English State, 1770-1830 52
8. ‘Harshness and Forbearance’: The Politics of Pardons and the Upper Canada Rebellion 77
9. Savage Mercy: Native Culture and the Modification of Capital Punishment in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia 104
10. Discretionary Justice: Political Culture and the Death Penalty in New South Wales and Ontario, 1890-1920 130
11. Punishment in Late-Twentieth-Century Canada: An Afterword 166
12. Select Bibliography 176
13. Contributors 179
14. Index 180