Dark Justice: The History of Punishment and Torture
by Karen Farrington
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The history of punishment and torture makes for macabre and mesmerizing reading: retribution without mercy, medieval justice, hellish prisons, and ingenious methods of inflicting torment upon the body and mind. Trace a path from the days of harshest penalties to more modern methods of reforming wrongdoers. Images graphically capture the plight of prisoners forced to walk treadmills till they went insane; bodies nailed to crosses; suspects tied to ducking stools; and the courts of the show more Inquisition, which left no stone unturned in their efforts to exact a confession. Discussions of human sacrifice, ordeal by fire or water, the dark days of juvenile justice, the pillory, and capital punishment reveal the astonishing array of clever and cruel sentences devised by those determined to deliver the ultimate punishments. show lessTags
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A tabloid-y kind of book, lavishly illustrated with woodcuts, paintings, drawings and photographs of all kinds of pain, death and dismemberment. It fails to go into the reasons behind the gruesome punishments, and I saw a few inaccuracies. Best suited for the true gore junkie.
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Karen Farrington is a former journalist who has contributed to numerous publications on military history. She has also written extensively on assassinations, natural disasters, & religion. Ms. Farrington's most recent works include "The Hamlyn Book of Torture & Punishment," "Witness to World War II," & "Shipwrecks." (Bowker Author Biography) Karen show more Farrington is an author and former journalist whose most recent works include books on assassinations, religion, crime and punishment, and the supernatural. She lives in England. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 364.6 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Crime Punishment
- LCC
- HV8501 .F37 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminal justice administration Penology. Prisons. Corrections
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- Languages
- English, German
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