Qualities of mercy [[electronic resource] ] : justice, punishment, and discretion / / edited by Carolyn Strange

• Pubblicazione: Vancouver, : UBC Press, c1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.6/09
• Soggetto topico: Punishment - Great Britain - History; Punishment - Canada - History; Punishment - Australia - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: StrangeCarolyn <1959->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Civilized People Don't Want to See That Sort of Thing: The Decline of Physical Punishment in London, 1760-1840""; ""2 In Place of Death: Transportation, Penal Practices, and the English State, 1770-1830""; ""3 'Harshness and Forbearance': The Politics of Pardons and the Upper Canada Rebellion""; ""4 Savage Mercy: Native Culture and the Modification of Capital Punishment in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia""; ""5 Discretionary Justice: Political Culture and the Death Penalty in New South Wales and Ontario, 1890-1920"" ; ""Punishment in Late-Twentieth-Century Canada: An Afterword""""Select Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
• Titolo autorizzato: Qualities of mercy
• ISBN: 1-283-13203-6; 9786613132031; 0-7748-5475-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452534803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II