Capital punishment, 1700-1934 : a case study of Hull

Harrison, Toby Paul

Abstract

[From the introduction:]
This thesis explores capital punishment from 1700-1934 in one English locality, Hull. A series of questions are addressed throughout this dissertation in order to understand the role of the criminal justice system in Hull. These are: to what extent was capital punishment utilised in Hull in this period; what views, if any, can be uncovered regarding capital punishment in this locality; and, how does local experience fit into reforms in the criminal justice system in this period. This in-depth study will also consider contributions that one locality gives to current debates of the Bloody Code in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, and also the relatively unexplored perception of capital punishment behind prison walls during the twentieth-century. By focussing new research around these questions, this study demonstrates how the criminal justice system operated in Hull, making great use of the Quarter Sessions and newspapers to suggest Hull’s autonomy as a judicial centre in the eighteenth-century, and how it conformed to national reforms in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries as the power of the central state expanded over peripheral settlements.

Citation

Harrison, T. P. (2019). Capital punishment, 1700-1934 : a case study of Hull. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4269960

• Thesis Type: Thesis
• Deposit Date: Apr 25, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 25, 2023
• Keywords: History
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4269960
• Additional Information: Department of History, The University of Hull
• Award Date: 2019-09