Preface 1. The emergence of criminal justice 2. The actors: executioners and their status 3. The stagers: the authorities and the dramatisation of executions 4. The watchers: spectators at the scaffold 5. The victims: delinquents and their penalties in Republican Amsterdam 6. The disappearance of public executions Conclusion Appendices Notes Bibliography Index.
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