- Seller Inventory #: 003143
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: New
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0954435621
- ISBN 13: 9780954435622
- Publisher: Amber Books
- Place: London
- Date published: 2003
- Keywords: PUNISHMENT HISTORY CRIMINAL ACTS LAW DEATH PENALTY IMPRISONMENT
London: Amber Books, 2003 This book outlines changing ideas of law and punishment, from the ancient Babylonian Code of Hammurabi through Islamic Sharia Law to modern notions of rehabilitation and the continued practice of corporal and capital punishment. Discover strange and terrible methods of punishment amongs these pages, including the pillory, flogging, branding, hanging, drawing and quartering, the guillotine, the bastinado, death of a thousand cuts, the scavenger's daughter, crucifixion, lethal injections and the electric chair. 192 pages with bibliography and index; well illustrated in black & white. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.