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A Sheffield Hallam University Thesis
Taboo : why are real-life British serial killers rarely represented on film? EARNSHAW, Antony Robert Available from the Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive (SHURA) at: http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20984/ A Sheffield Hallam University thesis This thesis is protected by copyright which belongs to the author. The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the author. When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given. Please visit http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20984/ and http://shura.shu.ac.uk/information.html for further details about copyright and re-use permissions. Taboo: Why are Real-Life British Serial Killers Rarely Represented on Film? Antony Robert Earnshaw Sheffield Hallam University MA English by Research September 2017 1 Abstract This thesis assesses changing British attitudes to the dramatisation of crimes committed by domestic serial killers and highlights the dearth of films made in this country on this subject. It discusses the notion of taboos and, using empirical and historical research, illustrates how filmmakers’ attempts to initiate productions have been vetoed by social, cultural and political sensitivities. Comparisons are drawn between the prevalence of such product in the United States and its uncommonness in Britain, emphasising the issues around the importing of similar foreign material for exhibition on British cinema screens and the importance of geographic distance to notions of appropriateness. The influence of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is evaluated. This includes a focus on how a central BBFC policy – the so- called 30-year rule of refusing to classify dramatisations of ‘recent’ cases of factual crime – was scrapped and replaced with a case-by-case consideration that allowed for the accommodation of a specific film championing a message of tolerance. -
Prison Information Bulletin
ISSN 0254-5225 ★ * ★ ★ ★ COUNCIL . CONSEIL OF EUROPE ★ ** DE L'EUROPE Prison Information Bulletin No. 11 - JUNE 1988 5 4003 00194412 2 CONTENTS PRISON INFORMATION BULLETIN Page 1/88 Published twice yearly in French and English, by the Council of Europe Prison suicides in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg .. 3 Reproduction The concept of treatment in the European prison rules 8 Articles or extracts may be reproduced on condition that the source is mentioned. A copy should be sent to the Chief Editor. The right to reproduce the cover illustration is reserved. Correspondence All correspondence should be addressed to the Directorate of Legal Affairs, Division of Crime Problems, Council of Europe, News from the member States 67006 Strasbourg, Cedex France Statistics concerning prison populations in the member States of the Council of Europe ................................... 18 Opinions Articles published in the Prison Information Bulletin are the Laws, bills, regulations .................................................... 21 authors ’ responsibility alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Council of Europe. Bibliography ...................................................................... 23 Editorial and production team Chief Editor: Marguerite-Sophie Eckert News in brief...................................................................... 28 Secretariat : Mary Phelan Responsible Editor : Erik Harremoes List of Directors of Prison Administrations of the member States of the Council of Europe ................... 29 Cover -
Capital Punishment at Home and Abroad: A
Eastern Kentucky University Encompass Honors Theses Student Scholarship Fall 2015 Capital Punishment at Home and Abroad: A Comparative Study on the Evolution of the Use of the Death Penalty in the United States and the United Kingdom Rachel Gaines Eastern Kentucky University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://encompass.eku.edu/honors_theses Recommended Citation Gaines, Rachel, "Capital Punishment at Home and Abroad: A Comparative Study on the Evolution of the Use of the Death Penalty in the United States and the United Kingdom" (2015). Honors Theses. 293. https://encompass.eku.edu/honors_theses/293 This Open Access Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship at Encompass. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of Encompass. For more information, please contact [email protected]. i EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY Capital Punishment at Home and Abroad: A Comparative Study on the Evolution of the Use of the Death Penalty in the United States and the United Kingdom Honors Thesis Submitted In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements of HON 420 Fall 2015 By Rachel Gaines Faculty Mentor Dr. Sucheta Mohanty Department of Government ii Capital Punishment at Home and Abroad: A Comparative Study on the Evolution of the Use of the Death Penalty in the United States and the United Kingdom Rachel Gaines Faculty Mentor Dr. Sucheta Mohanty, Department of Government Abstract: Capital punishment (sometimes referred to as the death penalty) is the carrying out of a legal sentence of death as punishment for crime. The United States Supreme Court has most recently ruled that capital punishment is not unconstitutional. -
Ruth Ellis in the Condemned Cell : Voyeurism and Resistance.', Prison Service Journal., 199
Durham Research Online Deposited in DRO: 30 August 2012 Version of attached le: Published Version Peer-review status of attached le: Unknown Citation for published item: Seal, L. (2012) 'Ruth Ellis in the condemned cell : voyeurism and resistance.', Prison Service journal., 199 . pp. 17-19. Further information on publisher's website: http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/psj.html Publisher's copyright statement: Additional information: Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Durham University Library, Stockton Road, Durham DH1 3LY, United Kingdom Tel : +44 (0)191 334 3042 | Fax : +44 (0)191 334 2971 https://dro.dur.ac.uk Ruth Ellis in the Condemned Cell: Voyeurism and Resistance Dr Lizzie Seal is a Lecturer in Criminology at Durham University. Introduction Holloway’s condemned cell. This provided the next phase of the story, in which a young, attractive mother faced When Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be execution for a murder that seemed eminently executed in England and Wales in July 1955, understandable. Particularly compelling was her execution had long been something which took insistence that she did not want to be reprieved and was place in private. -
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Public Accounts Committee Oral evidence: Improving the Prison Estate, HC 244 Monday 29 June 2020 Ordered by the House of Commons to be published on 29 June 2020. Watch the meeting Members present: Meg Hillier (Chair); Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown; Maria Eagle; Shabana Mahmood; Mr Gagan Mohindra; Sir Robert Neill; James Wild. Also present: Maria Eagle, member of the Justice Committee, Sir Robert Neill, Chair, Justice Committee Gareth Davies, Comptroller & Auditor General; Oliver Lodge, Director, National Audit Office and Marius Gallaher, Alternate Treasury Officer of Accounts, were in attendance. Questions 1-122 Witnesses I: Clive Beard, Deputy Director, Prisons and Maintenance Change, HM Prison and Probation Service, Dr Jo Farrar, Chief Executive, HM Prison and Probation Service and Sir Richard Heaton, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice. Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General Improving the prison estate (HC 41) Examination of witnesses Witnesses: Clive Beard, Dr Jo Farrar and Sir Richard Heaton. Q1 Chair: Welcome to the Public Accounts Committee on Monday 29 June. I am pleased to welcome everyone here today to discuss the National Audit Office Report “Improving the prison estate”, which is something we have looked at before. I am pleased to welcome to the Committee Sir Bob Neill, the Chair of the Justice Committee, and Maria Eagle, who is a member of that Committee and was a Prisons Minister in the last Labour Government. A warm welcome to both of you. The prison estate has 117 prisons, but more than 40% of them have been judged as not safe enough in the last five years. There have also been serious increases in assault and self-harm. -
Venues of Popular Politics in London, 1790–C. 1845
2. ‘Bastilles of despotism’: radical resistance in the Coldbath Fields House of Correction, 1798–18301 In the early morning of 13 July 1802, the road from London to the town of Brentford was already buzzing with a carnival atmosphere. Thousands had assembled on foot while others rode in hackney coaches; riders on horseback and bands of musicians formed a cavalcade that snaked along the roadways.2 The 1802 elections for Middlesex had become a major spectacle in the metropolis during the month of July.3 Crowds assembled each day at the Piccadilly home of Sir Francis Burdett to accompany their hero to the hustings. Burdett, the independent Whig MP for Boroughbridge and vocal opponent of William Pitt, had been enticed to London to contest the Middlesex elections by his close radical supporters.4 The streetscape was a panorama of vivid deep blue: banners were draped across buildings, ribbons were tied and handkerchiefs waved in Burdett’s electoral colour by thousands of supporters. The occasional hint of light blue or splatter of orange in the crowd meant supporters of rival contestants, such as Tory MP William Mainwaring, had unwisely spilled into the procession.5 Three horsemen led the massive entourage, each bearing a large blue banner, with the words ‘No Bastille’ illuminated in golden letters. The words inflamed the otherwise festive throng; angry chants of ‘No magistrates’ and ‘No Bastille’ reverberated among the crowd. Newgate, however, was not the object of scorn, but rather a new prison, the Coldbath Fields House of Correction, and the Middlesex magistrates responsible for its management. -
Why Are Real-Life British Serial Killers Rarely Represented on Film?
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive Taboo : why are real-life British serial killers rarely represented on film? EARNSHAW, Antony Robert Available from Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive (SHURA) at: http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20984/ This document is the author deposited version. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it. Published version EARNSHAW, Antony Robert (2017). Taboo : why are real-life British serial killers rarely represented on film? Masters, Sheffield Hallam University. Copyright and re-use policy See http://shura.shu.ac.uk/information.html Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive http://shura.shu.ac.uk Taboo: Why are Real-Life British Serial Killers Rarely Represented on Film? Antony Robert Earnshaw Sheffield Hallam University MA English by Research September 2017 1 Abstract This thesis assesses changing British attitudes to the dramatisation of crimes committed by domestic serial killers and highlights the dearth of films made in this country on this subject. It discusses the notion of taboos and, using empirical and historical research, illustrates how filmmakers’ attempts to initiate productions have been vetoed by social, cultural and political sensitivities. Comparisons are drawn between the prevalence of such product in the United States and its uncommonness in Britain, emphasising the issues around the importing of similar foreign material for exhibition on British cinema screens and the importance of geographic distance to notions of appropriateness. The influence of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is evaluated. This includes a focus on how a central BBFC policy – the so- called 30-year rule of refusing to classify dramatisations of ‘recent’ cases of factual crime – was scrapped and replaced with a case-by-case consideration that allowed for the accommodation of a specific film championing a message of tolerance. -
The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2011
AFSA DISSENT AWARDS INSIDE! $4.50 / JULY-AUGUST 2011 OREIGN ERVICE FJ O U R N A L S THE MAGAZINE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS PROFESSIONALS SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER Constructive Dissent in the Foreign Service — advertisement — OREIGN ERVICE FJ O U R N A L S CONTENTS July-August 2011 Volume 88, No.7-8 F OCUSON D i s s e n t WHAT IF I DISAGREE? / 18 Our nation has benefited greatly from the institutionalization of dissent in the culture of the Foreign Service. By Thomas D. Boyatt DISSENT IN THE KISSINGER ERA / 21 State’s Dissent Channel is a unique government institution. Here is a look at its origins and early history. By Hannah Gurman SAVIOR DIPLOMATS: FINALLY RECEIVING THEIR DUE / 30 Seven decades later, the examples of these 60 courageous public servants Cover illustration by Marian Smith. still offer lessons for members of today’s Foreign Service. This oil painting, “To Remember,” By Michael M. Uyehara was among her entries to AFSA’s 2011 Art Merit Award competition. F EATURES A CONSUMMATE NEGOTIATOR: ROZANNE L. RIDGWAY / 56 RESIDENT S IEWS P ’ V / 5 Last month AFSA recognized Ambassador Ridgway’s many contributions Moving Forward Together to American diplomacy and her lifetime of public service. By Susan R. Johnson By Steven Alan Honley SPEAKING OUT / 15 TAKING DIPLOMATIC PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION SERIOUSLY / 66 Needed: A Professional A new American Academy of Diplomacy study makes a compelling case Specialization in International for establishing a systematic training regimen at State. Organization Affairs By Robert M. Beecroft By Edward Marks THE KINGS AND I / 70 EFLECTIONS R / 76 An FSO explains why consorting with heads of state The Greater Honor isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be. -
The Crisis of Penal Populism: Prison Legitimacy and Its Effects on Women’S Prisons in the UK
Forensic Research & Criminology International Journal Review Article Open Access The crisis of penal populism: prison legitimacy and its effects on women’s prisons in the UK Abstract Volume 6 Issue 6 - 2018 Considering the closure of one of the oldest and infamous prisons in London, HM Susanna Menis Holloway female prison, and the controversy which had followed the plan concerning Associated Lecturer, University of London, London the use of the land, this study provides a brief review of the penal policies affecting women’s prisons in the UK since the 1990s. The review draws attention to the Correspondence: Susanna Menis, Associated Lecturer, problematic concept of penal populism and how the government has been using the Honorary Researcher (2017/18), School of Law, Birkbeck, prison system as a pawn in their political battleground. Therefore, it is argued that University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, the failings in the prison system cannot be attributed solely to its nature, but it is also Email essential to consider the temperament of politics in this area. Received: February 02, 2018 | Published: December 07, 2018 Keywords: penal populism, prison legitimacy, women’s prisons in the UK, HM holloway female prison Introduction less concerned with challenging the prison penalty; rather, it aimed at reinstating its legitimacy. It drew upon the damaged prison Word count 5038 environment, voicing the view that imprisonment did not appear ‘to help prisoners lead law abiding and useful lives in custody and after In light of the closure of one of the oldest and most infamous 3 3 prisons in London, HM Holloway female prison, and the controversy release’; hence the great focus on prisons refurbishment. -
Introduction
Notes Introduction 1. Times, 27 May 1954, p. 3; Rupert Croft-Cooke, The Verdict of You All (London: Secker and Warburg, 1955), pp. 150–1; David Kynaston, Family Britain 1951–57 (London: Bloomsbury, 2009), p. 391; Matt Cook, ‘Queer Conflicts: Love, Sex and War, 1914– 1967’, in Matt Cook (ed.), A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex between Men since the Middle Ages (Oxford: Greenwood, 2007), p. 171; Manchester Guardian, 27 May 1954, p. 4; 25 June 1954, p. 2; Daily Mail, 27 May 1954, p. 5. 2. Home Office and Scottish Home Department, Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (London: HMSO, 1957) [hereafter Wolfenden Report], subsections (ss.) 1–2. 3. Brian Harrison, Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom, 1951–1970 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009), p. 239; Chris Waters, ‘Disorders of the Mind, Disorders of the Body Social: Peter Wildeblood and the Making of the Modern Homosexual’, in Becky Conekin, Frank Mort and Chris Waters (eds), Moments of Modernity: Reconstructing Britain 1945–1964 (London: Rivers Oram Press, 1999), pp. 137–8; Chris Waters, ‘The Homosexual as a Social Being in Britain, 1945–1968’, in Brian Lewis (ed.), British Queer History (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013), chap. 9; Michal Shapira, The War Inside: Psychoanalysis, Total War, and the Making of the Democratic Self in Postwar Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), chap. 6. 4. John Wolfenden, Turning Points: The Memoirs of Lord Wolfenden (London: Bodley Head, 1976), p. 130. See also Frank Mort, Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010), pp. -
Correcting Injustice: Studying How the United Kingdom and the United States Review Claims of Innocence
Pace University DigitalCommons@Pace Pace Law Faculty Publications School of Law 2009 Correcting Injustice: Studying How the United Kingdom and the United States Review Claims of Innocence Lissa Griffin Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/lawfaculty Part of the Comparative and Foreign Law Commons, Criminal Law Commons, and the International Law Commons Recommended Citation Lissa Griffin, Correcting Injustice: Studying How the United Kingdom and the United States Review Claims of Innocence, 41 U. Tol. L. Rev. 107 (2009), http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/lawfaculty/653/. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Law at DigitalCommons@Pace. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pace Law Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Pace. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CORRECTING INJUSTICE: STUDYING HOW THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE UNITED STATES REVIEW CLAIMS OF INNOCENCE Lissa Griffin* ' "England and America are two countries [separated] by a common language." JN the United States, the problem of wrongful convictions continues to Lelude a solution.2 Many approaches to the problem have been suggested, and some have been tried. Legislators,3 professional organizations,4 and 5 scholars have suggested various systemic changes to improve the accuracy of6 the adjudication process and to correct wrongful convictions after they occur. Despite these efforts, the demanding standard of review used by U.S. courts, combined with strict retroactivity rules, a refusal to consider newly discovered * Professor of Law, Pace University School of Law. The author wishes to thank John Wagstaff, Legal Adviser to the Criminal Cases Review Commission; Laurie Elks, Esq. -
The Abolition of the Death Penalty in the United Kingdom
The Abolition of the Death Penalty in the United Kingdom How it Happened and Why it Still Matters Julian B. Knowles QC Acknowledgements This monograph was made possible by grants awarded to The Death Penalty Project from the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Oak Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, Simons Muirhead & Burton and the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture. Dedication The author would like to dedicate this monograph to Scott W. Braden, in respectful recognition of his life’s work on behalf of the condemned in the United States. © 2015 Julian B. Knowles QC All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author. Copies of this monograph may be obtained from: The Death Penalty Project 8/9 Frith Street Soho London W1D 3JB or via our website: www.deathpenaltyproject.org ISBN: 978-0-9576785-6-9 Cover image: Anti-death penalty demonstrators in the UK in 1959. MARY EVANS PICTURE LIBRARY 2 Contents Foreword .....................................................................................................................................................4 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................5 A brief