The Murder Act (1752) decreed that homicide perpetrators should be hanged and sent for post-execution punishment. This article explores the event management of criminal dissections by penal surgeons in situ. It reveals that the punishment parade of the condemned did not stop at the scaffold, contrary to the impression in many standard historical accounts. Instead, ordinary people accompanied cr...

In a galaxy far, far away—a typical law school classroom—the quality of discussion of criminal codes and doctrines might fairly be described as in disastrous condition. Indeed, it is probably overly generous to characterize the typical law school criminal law course as being about modern criminal codes and doctrines at all, at least if one assumes that, at a minimum, such a course should review...

penal populism researches have provided valuable data about characteristics of penal populist policies. generally, penal populist policies are tough, popular, symbolic, emotional and without scientific bases. penal populist reactions appear in the light of popular moves and emotional environment. these polices attempt to control criminal phenomena by penal mechanisms in a shortest possible time...

given in full, with their reasons for assigning the punishment for life only :? " We have ready made to our hands a weapon of tremendous power. The horror with which the people regard transportation is a feeling born with them, and the questions whether it bo a wise or foolish feeling, whether it be a just deduction from true premises, or the result of ignorance and superstition, are nothing to...