The Spectacle of Suffering: Executions and the Evolution of Repression: From a Preindustrial Metropolis to the European Experience

by Pieter Cornelis Spierenburg

Book Overview

Present-day unease about the treatment of lawbreakers has deep historical roots. Pieter Spierenburg traces the long period of evolution that gave rise to the modern debate about punishment, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521089646
• ISBN13: 9780521089647
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"