Criminal Bodies in the West - Iconography and Life After Death

Summary

This book explores the cultural meanings of the criminal body in the west through historical and multidisciplinary frameworks, examining how the criminal corpse held cultural meaning as both repository of power and material relic. This book was first published as a special issue of Mortality.

Product details

• Authors: Melissa Schrift
• Assisted by: Melissa Schrift (Editor), Schrift Melissa (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367334277
• ISBN: 978-0-367-33427-7
• No. of pages: 106
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, LAW / Legal History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Legal History, Medical Sociology, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying