Penal Practice and Culture, 1500-1900
Subtitle: Punishing the English
Contributors: Simon Deveraux (Editor); Paul Griffiths (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: March 18, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780333997406
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Prisons; History: World; Sociology; British Isles; England; Europe - Great Britain - General; Penology; Violence in Society; History / Great Britain; History-Europe - Great Britain - General; Social Science / Penology; Social Science-Violence in Society; Europe - General; Social History; Corrections; History; Punishment; Violence
First sentence: One of Sir John Harington's epigrams tells the story of a man brought into the Star Chamber, who 'for the greater terrour' was sentenced to be branded on the face and to have his nose slit.