The Management of the Public Execution of Joseph Bell in Mid-Victorian Scotland
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Published:2023-05
Issue:1
Volume:14
Page:39-59
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ISSN:0306-5278
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Container-title:Northern Scotland
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Northern Scotland
Abstract
Statutory change in 1868 moved the places of execution on judicial warrant of a convicted person from an open venue to a closed prison room. The execution of Joseph Bell, one of the last such spectacles before a crowd, illustrates the demands made of local authority administration.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Subject
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous),Sociology and Political Science,Anthropology,History,Geography, Planning and Development,Cultural Studies