期刊名称：Crimes and Misdemeanours : Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective
印刷版ISSN：1754-0445
出版年度：2007
卷号：1
期号：02
页码：110-125
出版社：SOLON
摘要：Almost half of those receiving the death sentence in late-Victorian and Edwardian England were reprieved. The process of deciding which murderers were to hang and which were to be spared became an increasingly public one, thanks to the growing intervention of the press. This intervention grew alongside the accelerated expansion in the numbers and circulations of newspapers in the second half of the nineteenth century. As the press became a larger part of national life, its more „popular‟ and its more local segments carved out for themselves a new and ever more prominent role as major participants in public discourse over „justice‟ vs. „mercy‟ for condemned murderers. This involvement is a facet of Victorian and Edwardian newspapers that has previously been overlooked.
关键词：Victorian and Edwardian Press ; murderers ; death sentence ; condemned murderers
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