Introduction: A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse

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Capital punishment is an historical universal — it has been practiced at some point in the history of virtually all known societies and places. That is not to say, however, that it is an historical constant — the use, form, function and meaning of execution has varied greatly across different historical contexts. This is likewise true for an important — although relatively neglected — aspect of capital punishment: the fate of the criminal body after execution. This chapter is an introduction to the volume. This is a chapter from A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse edited by Richard Ward. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license.

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Item Type:	Book Section
Authors/Creators:	Ward, R.
Editors:	Ward, R.M.
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2015 Richard Ward. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Dates:	Published: 1 September 2015
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of History (Sheffield)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	10 Mar 2016 16:02
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2020 16:43
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Series Name:	Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
Identification Number:	10.1057/9781137577931
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:95831

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