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William Corder and the Red Barn Murder

Journeys of the Criminal Body

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Shane McCorristine

    1. University of Leicester, UK

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Murder in the Red Barn

    • Shane McCorristine
    Pages 1-19

  3. The Criminal Body Dismembered

    • Shane McCorristine
    Pages 20-43

  4. The Criminal Body Remembered

    • Shane McCorristine
    Pages 44-67

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 68-112
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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.

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  • University of Leicester, UK

    Shane McCorristine

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.

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