Seeing Justice Done
The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 July 2014
- ISBN 9780198715993
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages346 pages
- Size 234x157x17 mm
- Weight 494 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 black and white images 0
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Short description:
A history of public executions in France from the medieval spectacle of suffering to the invention of the Revolutionary guillotine, up to the last public execution in 1939. Paul Friedland explores why spectacles of public execution were staged, as well as why thousands of spectators came to watch them.
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From the early Middle Ages to the twentieth century, capital punishment in France, as in many other countries, was staged before large crowds of spectators. Paul Friedland traces the theory and practice of public executions over time, both from the perspective of those who staged these punishments as well as from the vantage point of the many thousands who came to 'see justice done'. While penal theorists often stressed that the fundamental purpose of public punishment was to strike fear in the hearts of spectators, the eagerness with which crowds flocked to executions, and the extent to which spectators actually enjoyed the spectacle of suffering suggests that there was a wide gulf between theoretical intentions and actual experiences. Moreover, public executions of animals, effigies, and corpses point to an enduring ritual function that had little to do with exemplary deterrence. In the eighteenth century, when a revolution in sensibilities made it unseemly for individuals to take pleasure in or even witness the suffering of others, capital punishment became the target of reformers. From the invention of the guillotine, which reduced the moment of death to the blink of an eye, to the 1939 decree which moved executions behind prison walls, capital punishment in France was systematically stripped of its spectacular elements.
Partly a history of penal theory, partly an anthropologically-inspired study of the penal ritual, Seeing Justice Done traces the historical roots of modern capital punishment, and sheds light on the fundamental 'disconnect' between the theory and practice of punishment which endures to this day, nit only in France but in the Western penal tradition more generally.
Seeing Justice Done would be a worthwhile addition to any academic law library or other library seeking to enhance its legal history collection and to provide its users with a unique and educational book selection ... It is highly recommended.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Reading and Writing a History of Punishment
Part I: The Roots of Modern Punishment in Pre-Modern Europe
The Fall and Rise of Rome: Compensation, Atonement, and Deterrence in the Early Middle Ages
Criminal Intent and Spectacular Punishment: The Infiltration of Roman Legal Theory and Practice into French Customary Law
PART II: Executioners and the Ritual of Execution
Extraordinary Beings: The Life and Work of Executioners
The Execution of Justice: The Ritual of Punishment in Medieval and Early Modern France
PART III: Spectators & Spectacle
From Ritual to Spectacle: The Rise of the Penal Voyeur in Early Modern France
Executions, Spectator Emotions, and the Naturalization of Sympathy
A Spectacular Crisis: Watching Executions in the Age of Sensibilité
Part IV: A Death Penalty for the Modern Age
Theorizing a New Death Penalty: Penal Reform on the Eve of the Revolution
Legislating the New Death Penalty: The Simple Deprivation of Life
Executing the New Death Penalty: The Invisible Spectacle of the Guillotine
Epilogue: The Play Over, The Actors (Slowly) Leave the Stage (1794-1939)
Conclusion: Punishment Past and Present
