Dead body: Criminal

Carol, A. 2023

‘Le corps des guillotines: Prévost, 1880’, in A. Carol & I. Renaudet (eds) Des Morts qui Dérogent: Á L’Écart des Normes Funéraires XIXe-XXe siècles, Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universaires de Provence, 67-81.

Penfold-Mounce, R. 2010

‘Consuming criminal corpses: fascination with the dead criminal body’, Mortality, 15:3, 250-265.

Robins, D. 2022

‘Managing unwanted ghosts’, in M. Fiddler, T. Linnemann & T. Kindynis (eds) Ghost Criminology: The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment, New York: New York University Press.

Robins, D. & Smith, R. 2021

‘Hidden labour in funeral directing: providing care to “difficult” dead bodies’, Mortality, 26:1, 100-111.

Events

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