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A Chinese courtroom (?): a woman is shown being beaten, as she kneels before a formally-dressed official, who is writing at a desk. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.
Date: 1780-1880Reference: 573872i
Part of: Chinese justice and methods of punishment
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Criminal soldiers are broken on the wheel on a scaffold in the middle of a marketplace. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Date: [1730]Reference: 44140i
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Penological and preventive principles : with special reference to Europe and America and to the diminution of crime, pauperism, and intemperance to prisons and their substitutes habitual offenders, sentences, neglected youth, education, police, statistics, etc / by William Tallack.
Tallack, William, 1831-1908.Date: 1889
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A Chinese man lying on the ground, with a man seated on his back and another holding his feet, is being beaten. Engraving by W. Wetherhead, 1858, after T. Allom.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872.Date: [1858]Reference: 579730i
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Punishment : its origin, purpose and psychology / by Hans von Hentig.
Hentig, Hans von, 1887-1974.Date: 1937
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A Chinese man being taken prisoner: a man is shown being led away by two other men, who pull on a chain attached to his neck, while a woman and child look on. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.
Date: 1780-1880Reference: 573874i
Part of: Chinese justice and methods of punishment
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Page 6: court of Yama, judgement and punishment. Watercolour drawing.
Reference: 26976i
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Ethnologische Studien zur ersten Entwicklung der Strafe : nebst einer psychologischen Abhandlung über Grausamkeit und Rachsucht / von S.R. Steinmetz.
Steinmetz, Sebald Rudolf, 1862-1940.Date: 1894
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Report of the Departmental Committee on Corporal Punishment.
Great Britain. Home Office. Committee on Corporal Punishment.Date: 1938
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Inferno : an anatomy of American punishment / Robert A. Ferguson.
Ferguson, Robert A., 1942-2017Date: 2014
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Two Chinese prisoners, shackled to large weights: one prisoner drinks tea (?), while the other sits beside a small furnace. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 573821i
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A firing squad executing criminal soldiers. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Date: [1730]Reference: 44133i
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A Chinese man kneeling on the ground and held by a man in uniform is being hit by a man wearing a similar uniform. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
Date: 1 Jany. 1801Reference: 579693i
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A comparative view of the punishments annexed to crime in the United States of America and in England / by J. Sydney Taylor.
Taylor, J. Sydney (John Sydney), 1795-1841.Date: 1831
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The Newgate calendar; comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England since the commencement of the eighteenth century; with occasional anecdotes and observations, speeches, confessions, and last exclamations of sufferers / By Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin.
Knapp, Andrew.Date: 1824-
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Five men beating three women with sticks in Ethiopia. Wood engraving by É. Bayard after G. Lejean, 1867.
Date: 1870-1879Reference: 580442i
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A Chinese prisoner kneeling on the ground is having his fingers tortured by three men. Coloured engraving by A. Freschi, 1812.
Date: 15 May 1812Reference: 579903i
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A Chinese man carrying the cangue around his neck as a punishment. Halftone, 19--.
Date: 1900-1999Reference: 579735i
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Three Chinese men being subjected to torture and execution: left, the body of a recently decapitated man, centre, a man tied to a cross, right, an executioner prepars to decapitate a kneeling man. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 573832i
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Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners sitting on long benches untangling bundles of twine (picking oakum); a guard raises his hand. Wood engraving. after M. Fitzgerald, 1874.
Fitzgerald, Michael, active 1871-1891.Date: [1874]Reference: 37710i
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A Chinese woman being subjected to torture while tied to a cross: the woman's torturer is shown using a knife to cut open her abdomen, arms and face, while a formally-dressed man looks on. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 573828i
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Two Chinese men wearing red jackets are holding a Chinese prisoner by the ears and under the arms. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
Date: 1 Jany. 1801Reference: 579692i
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Prisoners in Rangoon working a treadmill. Process print after Watts & Skeen.
Reference: 37768i
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M0005112: Scold's bridle of iron.
Date: 8 February 1937Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/41/61
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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A Chinese officer is holding a prisoner by his chain and leading him away into exile. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
Date: 1 Jany. 1801Reference: 579711i

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A Chinese courtroom (?): a woman is shown being beaten, as she kneels before a formally-dressed official, who is writing at a desk. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.

Criminal soldiers are broken on the wheel on a scaffold in the middle of a marketplace. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.

Penological and preventive principles : with special reference to Europe and America and to the diminution of crime, pauperism, and intemperance to prisons and their substitutes habitual offenders, sentences, neglected youth, education, police, statistics, etc / by William Tallack.

A Chinese man lying on the ground, with a man seated on his back and another holding his feet, is being beaten. Engraving by W. Wetherhead, 1858, after T. Allom.

Punishment : its origin, purpose and psychology / by Hans von Hentig.

A Chinese man being taken prisoner: a man is shown being led away by two other men, who pull on a chain attached to his neck, while a woman and child look on. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.

Page 6: court of Yama, judgement and punishment. Watercolour drawing.

Ethnologische Studien zur ersten Entwicklung der Strafe : nebst einer psychologischen Abhandlung über Grausamkeit und Rachsucht / von S.R. Steinmetz.

Report of the Departmental Committee on Corporal Punishment.

Inferno : an anatomy of American punishment / Robert A. Ferguson.

Two Chinese prisoners, shackled to large weights: one prisoner drinks tea (?), while the other sits beside a small furnace. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.

A firing squad executing criminal soldiers. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.

A Chinese man kneeling on the ground and held by a man in uniform is being hit by a man wearing a similar uniform. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.

A comparative view of the punishments annexed to crime in the United States of America and in England / by J. Sydney Taylor.

Five men beating three women with sticks in Ethiopia. Wood engraving by É. Bayard after G. Lejean, 1867.

A Chinese prisoner kneeling on the ground is having his fingers tortured by three men. Coloured engraving by A. Freschi, 1812.

A Chinese man carrying the cangue around his neck as a punishment. Halftone, 19--.

Three Chinese men being subjected to torture and execution: left, the body of a recently decapitated man, centre, a man tied to a cross, right, an executioner prepars to decapitate a kneeling man. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.

Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners sitting on long benches untangling bundles of twine (picking oakum); a guard raises his hand. Wood engraving. after M. Fitzgerald, 1874.

A Chinese woman being subjected to torture while tied to a cross: the woman's torturer is shown using a knife to cut open her abdomen, arms and face, while a formally-dressed man looks on. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.

Two Chinese men wearing red jackets are holding a Chinese prisoner by the ears and under the arms. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.

Prisoners in Rangoon working a treadmill. Process print after Watts & Skeen.

M0005112: Scold's bridle of iron.

A Chinese officer is holding a prisoner by his chain and leading him away into exile. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.