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Author Gregory, James (Historian)

Title Victorians against the gallows : capital punishment and the abolitionist movement in nineteenth century Britain / James Gregory
Published London ; New York : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 372 pages) : illustrations
Series Library of Victorian studies ; 5
Library of Victorian studies ; 5.
Contents The rise and decline of the movement -- The personnel of S.A.C.P. -- Abolitionism : the role of women and workers -- Abolitionism in operation -- The abolitionists and Parliament -- The mental world of abolitionism -- Capital sentences -- The law on trial
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment -- History -- 19th century
SUBJECT Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment fast
Subject Capital punishment -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Capital Punishment -- legislation & jurisprudence
Crime -- history
Social Change -- history
Social Justice -- history
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
Capital punishment
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780857721068
0857721062