Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834.
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and Its Afterlife Ser. .
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Exploring the Historiography -- Structuring the Narrative -- Conclusion -- Part I The Implementation of the Death Sentence in Scotland -- Chapter 2 Capital Punishment and the Scottish Criminal Justice System -- The Death Sentence in Scots Law -- Long-Term Trends in Scottish Capital Punishment -- Geography of Capital Punishment -- Capital Punishment and the Scottish Murderer -- Capital Punishment and Scottish Property Offenders -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Contextualising the Punishment of Death -- Executions Following the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion -- Capital Punishment in the 1780s and the Crisis of Transportation in Scotland -- Executions in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Scottish Women and the Hangman's Noose -- Homicide -- Infanticide -- Property Offences -- Conclusion -- Part II The Theatre of the Gallows in Scotland -- Chapter 5 The Spectacle of the Scaffold -- The Gallows Protagonists -- Staging the Public Execution -- Scottish Execution Practices -- The Punishment for Treason -- Post-Mortem Punishment -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 A Fate Worse than Death? Dissection and the Criminal Corpse -- Belief, Anxiety and the Dead Body -- Medical Beliefs About the Dead Body -- Dissection and the Criminal Corpse -- The Case of William Burke -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Hanging in Chains: The Criminal Corpse on Display -- Hanging in Chains as a Punishment -- The Gibbeted Malefactor -- Chronology of Hanging in Chains -- Locating the Gibbet -- Longevity of the Gibbet -- The Case of James Stewart -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Conclusion -- Index.