Certain Other Countries: Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales

by Carolyn A. Conley

Book Overview

Even though England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales were under a common Parliament in the nineteenth century, cultural, economic, and historical differences led to very different values and assumptions about crime and punishment. For example, though the Scots were the most likely to convict accused killers, English, Welsh, and Irish killers were two and a half times more likely to be executed for their crimes. In Certain Other Countries, Carolyn...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814210511
• ISBN13: 9780814210512
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"