William Corder and the Red Barn Murder: Journeys of the Criminal Body

by S. McCorristine

Overview

This study reassesses the criminal body from sentencing to execution and afterlife, using the nineteenth-century Red Barn murder as a case study. Positioned within the burgeoning field of medical humanities, it places culture and power at the centre of debates surrounding criminal justice and public punishment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137439383
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/18/2014
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Shane McCorristine is a Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leicester and a College Lecturer in Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

1. The Murder in the Red Barn 2. The Criminal Body Dismembered 3. The Criminal Body Remembered Appendix 1: Crime, Trial, and Dismemberment Appendix 2: Representations and Afterlives