- Summary
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How crime and punishment are defined and managed is central to our shared sense of humanity. And both accountability and fairness are at the heart of our concerns. Although the distinctiveness of the Scots’ relationship to crime and its punishment is well documented the aim of the present study is to analyse it as an aspect of Scottishness. In this modest contribution to research, political decisions, historical facts and cultural metaphors are reviewed from the archetypal character of Mary, Queen of Scots, to vibrant Tartan Noir, thanks to Laidlaw and his peers.
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I – Tartan Noir — from crime fiction to thanatography / Tartan noir : du rompol à la thanatographie
The Heart of Tartan Noir
Lin Anderson
Thrawn characters on converging routes leading to thanatography
Jean Berton
II – The roots of evil / Les racines du mal
Knox et Burne sur la question religieuse du crime et du châtiment
Christian Jérémie
Marie Stuart : coupable ou innocente ? La réhabilitation d’un personnage historique dans l’art pictural
Marion Amblard
Crime, Punishment, and Civilisation in Walter Scott’s The Talisman
Andrew Monnickendam
III – Questioning poetic justice / L’immanence de la justice en question.
Jacobite Legacies to Scottish Popular Culture: Murder under Trust, Treason and their Punishment
Arnaud Fiasson
Robert Burns’s Poetic Justice: Let the Punishment Fit the Crime
Karyn Wilson-Costa
Natural Feelings, Crime and Punishment in Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy
Trung Thien Kim Nguyen
IV – Confessing and punishing / L’aveu et la punition
Les prisons édimbourgeoises : témoins de la spécificité et de l’évolution du châtiment écossais à l’époque victorienne (1837-1901)
Emilie Berthillot
Punishment and crime in Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon
Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon
His Bloody Deceptive Project: the Unjustified Confessions of Roderick Macrae
Robert Wirth
V – The People and justice / La justice du peuple
The Invergordon “Mutiny” 1931 and the Admiralty
Tri Tran
Hamish MacDonald’s Singing Far into the Night or the 1931 Invergordon events on stage
Danièle Berton-Charrière
The Porteous Riots and the Gordon Riots: the reactions to Crime and Punishment of Allan Ramsay father and son
Michael Murphy
VI – From guilt to sentence / De la culpabilisation à la condamnation
La culpabilité des enfants criminels dans The Field of Blood de Denise Mina
Ahmady Camara
Displacement as an Exit Strategy: Crime and Punishment in Mackay Brown’s Greenvoe
Mario Ebest
Récits, symboles et répression dans Witch Light de Susan Fletcher
Philippe Laplace
VII – The Law and tartanisation / Le droit et la tartanisation
Les droits des justiciables : une conception écossaise des droits de l'homme ?
Edwige Camp-Pietrain
Perception of criminality among migrants and the myth of equality in Scotland
Wafa El Fekih Said
The Scottish State and the Tartanisation of Penal Politics
Emma Bell
- Author (s)
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Jean BERTON (edit. director)Bill FINDLAY (edit. director)The authors are European academics working on Scotland and on Scottish studies.
- Readership
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Students and academics specializing in Scottish studies, either history or literature. People carrying out research on crime and penalties decided by the legislative power.
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