The following text field will produce suggestions that follow it as you type.

Loading Inventory...

Indigo

Making Murder Public by K. J. Kesselring, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From K. J. Kesselring

Current price: $51.18
Making Murder Public by K. J. Kesselring, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Making Murder Public by K. J. Kesselring, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Making Murder Public by K. J. Kesselring, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From K. J. Kesselring

Current price: $51.18
Loading Inventory...

Size: 25.4 x 234 x 308

Buy OnlineGet it at Indigo
*Product information may vary - to confirm product availability, pricing, shipping and return information please contact Indigo
Homicide has a history. In early modern England, that history saw two especially notable developments: one, the emergence in the sixteenth century of a formal distinction between murder and manslaughter, made meaningful through a lighter punishment than death for the latter, and two, asignificant reduction in the rates of homicides individuals perpetrated on each other. Making Murder Public explores connections between these two changes. It demonstrates the value in distinguishing between murder and manslaughter, or at least in seeing how that distinction came to matter in a period which also witnessed dramatic drops in the occurrence of homicidal violence. Focusedon the 'politics of murder', Making Murder Public examines how homicide became more effectively criminalized between 1480 and 1680, with chapters devoted to coroners' inquests, appeals and private compensation, duels and private vengeance, and print and public punishment. The English had begunmoving away from treating homicide as an offence subject to private settlements or vengeance long before other Europeans, at least from the twelfth century. What happened in the early modern period was, in some ways, a continuation of processes long underway, but intensified and refocused bydevelopments from 1480 to 1680.Making Murder Public argues that homicide became fully 'public' in these years, with killings seen to violate a 'king's peace' that people increasingly conflated with or subordinated to the 'public peace' or 'public justice.' | Making Murder Public by K. J. Kesselring, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

More About Indigo at St. Vital Centre

Canada's Largest Bookstore. Indigo is the largest book, gift and specialty toy retailer in Canada

Powered by Adeptmind