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This study reassesses the criminal body from sentencing to execution and afterlife, using the nineteenth-century Red Barn murder as a case study. Positioned within the burgeoning field of medical humanities, it places culture and power at the centre of debates surrounding criminal justice and public punishment.
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Shane McCorristine is a Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leicester and a College Lecturer in Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: William Corder and the Red Barn Murder
Book Subtitle: Journeys of the Criminal Body
Authors: Shane McCorristine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137439390
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-43938-3Published: 18 August 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-43939-0Published: 18 August 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 112
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Regional and Cultural Studies, History of Britain and Ireland, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Crime and Society, Sociology, general