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Practice of Execution in Canada

Leyton-Brown Ken
Heftet / 2011 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780774817547
Publisert
2011
Utgiver
Vendor
University of British Columbia Press
Vekt
340 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
216

Forfatter
Leyton-Brown Ken

Om bidragsyterne

Ken Leyton-Brown is an associate professor in the History Department at the University of Regina.

Practice of Execution in Canada

Leyton-Brown Ken
Heftet / 2011 / Engelsk
Leyton-Brown Ken
Heftet / 2011 / Engelsk
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<p>It is difficult to find any major faults with this study, which is a welcome addition to Canadian legal history.</p>

- Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick, Law and Politics Book Review, Vol 21, No 5

This study of executions in Canada is morbidly fascinating—literally. In calm, clear, well-written prose, Leyton-Brown looks at several hundred Canadian executions and presents details about enough of them to make a good story ... anyone who reads this dispassionate book will have difficulty concluding that execution can ever be justified. Summing Up: Highly recommended.

- J.L. Granatstein, CHOICE, Vol 48, No 3

<p>Ken Leyton-Brown has tackled an enormously important piece of research and <em>The Practice of Execution in Canada</em> will, without a doubt, serve as an important reference. Everyone who opposes, and also those who favour the death penalty should read it.</p>

- Gord Barnes, Amnesty International volunteer, activist and fieldworker, ActiveHistory.ca

It is easy to forget that the death penalty was an accepted aspect of Canadian culture and criminal justice from Confederation until 1976. The Practice of Execution in Canada is not about what led some to the gallows and others to escape it. Rather, it examines how the routine rituals and practices of education can be seen as a crucial social institution.Drawing on hundreds of case files, Ken Leyton-Brown shows that from trial to interment, the practice of execution was constrained by law and tradition.Despite this, however, the institution was not rigid. Criticism and reform pushed executions out of the public eye, and in so doing, stripped them of meaningful ritual and made them more vulnerable to criticism. Comprehensive and absorbing, this groundbreaking study is for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of contemporary debates on capital punishment.
Les mer
The first comprehensive examination of execution as a social institution in Canada.
Preface and Acknowledgments1 Introduction2 Trial and Sentencing3 Redemption4 Confession5 Procession6 Hanging7 Display8 Inquest9 Disposal10 ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
This fascinating work takes us from a dramatic account of the public execution of Claude Ruel on July 1, 1868 in St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, to the double hanging of Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin in Toronto’s Don Jail on December 11, 1962. Just as that jail had gradually evolved from an example of mid-Victorian penal innovation into a symbol of public indifference and cruel confinement, so this story had evolved along a similar path within the public's perception. What’s most original is the focus upon treating this process as an institutional history – a rich approach and one certain to provoke debate.
Les mer
A fascinating study of how the routine rituals and practices of execution gave the death penalty its meaning and contributed to its demise in Canada.

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<p>It is difficult to find any major faults with this study, which is a welcome addition to Canadian legal history.</p>

- Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick, Law and Politics Book Review, Vol 21, No 5

This study of executions in Canada is morbidly fascinating—literally. In calm, clear, well-written prose, Leyton-Brown looks at several hundred Canadian executions and presents details about enough of them to make a good story ... anyone who reads this dispassionate book will have difficulty concluding that execution can ever be justified. Summing Up: Highly recommended.

- J.L. Granatstein, CHOICE, Vol 48, No 3

<p>Ken Leyton-Brown has tackled an enormously important piece of research and <em>The Practice of Execution in Canada</em> will, without a doubt, serve as an important reference. Everyone who opposes, and also those who favour the death penalty should read it.</p>

- Gord Barnes, Amnesty International volunteer, activist and fieldworker, ActiveHistory.ca

It is easy to forget that the death penalty was an accepted aspect of Canadian culture and criminal justice from Confederation until 1976. The Practice of Execution in Canada is not about what led some to the gallows and others to escape it. Rather, it examines how the routine rituals and practices of education can be seen as a crucial social institution.Drawing on hundreds of case files, Ken Leyton-Brown shows that from trial to interment, the practice of execution was constrained by law and tradition.Despite this, however, the institution was not rigid. Criticism and reform pushed executions out of the public eye, and in so doing, stripped them of meaningful ritual and made them more vulnerable to criticism. Comprehensive and absorbing, this groundbreaking study is for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of contemporary debates on capital punishment.
Les mer
The first comprehensive examination of execution as a social institution in Canada.
Preface and Acknowledgments1 Introduction2 Trial and Sentencing3 Redemption4 Confession5 Procession6 Hanging7 Display8 Inquest9 Disposal10 ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
This fascinating work takes us from a dramatic account of the public execution of Claude Ruel on July 1, 1868 in St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, to the double hanging of Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin in Toronto’s Don Jail on December 11, 1962. Just as that jail had gradually evolved from an example of mid-Victorian penal innovation into a symbol of public indifference and cruel confinement, so this story had evolved along a similar path within the public's perception. What’s most original is the focus upon treating this process as an institutional history – a rich approach and one certain to provoke debate.
Les mer
A fascinating study of how the routine rituals and practices of execution gave the death penalty its meaning and contributed to its demise in Canada.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780774817547
Publisert
2011
Utgiver
Vendor
University of British Columbia Press
Vekt
340 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
216

Forfatter
Leyton-Brown Ken

Om bidragsyterne

Ken Leyton-Brown is an associate professor in the History Department at the University of Regina.

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