Reviews for Gender, Violence And The Social Order

The average rating for Gender, Violence And The Social Order based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-12-17 00:00:00 Katsuyuki Fujikawa One word review: WHY?! Long review: This is possibly the most pointless book I've ever read. It should've been called The Executioner's Catalogue: A List of Every British Hangman of the Twentieth Century. Because that is pretty much what it is. There is nothing biblical about it, and there is no story. If you're going in expecting - like I did - some sort of insight into the minds of the kind of people who choose or find themselves in a job like this, and what it does to them, don't bother. You won't get it. All you will get is a litany of 'On this-and-this date, so-and-so hangman hanged such-and-such person for that-and-the-other crime' That is all. There is little else in here. That little else is a smattering of halfway-interesting crime titbits, technical procedural information and capital punishment politics. And - worst of all - teases of what this book could have been. Mentions of hangmen who attempted suicide, quit after one witnessing, turned to alcohol, kept their job secret from family. But all of these are simply thrown in there as asides, things that just happened. What an utter waste of even the few minutes a day I spent reading it for 2 months. Why? I don't know why.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-12-10 00:00:00 Ashley Stockdale Fielding goes through all the hangmen of England during the 20th century giving snippets of information regarding their lives and some of the criminals they hung. It's slightly unsatisfying in some respects but it does make you want to look into some of the hangmen and criminals/crimes more indepth.