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Title: | The Politics of the Rope: The Campaign to abolish capital punishment in Britain 1955-1969 | ||||
Author: | Twitchell, Neville H. |
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0000 0004 2674 0242
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Awarding Body: | London Metropolitan University | ||||
Current Institution: | London Metropolitan University | ||||
Date of Award: | 2009 | ||||
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This thesis is an account of the campaign to abolish the death
penalty for murder in Britain from the mid 1950s to the late 1960s.
It examines the campaign and the debate that it generated from a
very broad perspective. It looks briefly at the history of capital
punishment in this country so as to set the campaign in context. It
focuses on the chief pressure group set up to lobby for abolition, the
National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment (NCACP),
and examines in detail its motivation, activities, strategy and influence.
It examines the high politics of the campaign; the role played by
government and opposition and the interplay between them, and
scrutinizes the Parliamentary debates. It examines the role of the main
political parties and their internal conflicts, both structurally between
front bench, backbench and grassroots membership, and ideologically
between pro and anti-hangers and examines the way in which the
configuration of opinion within the parties affected the controversy. It
looks at the debate within the framework of the other 'conscience' issue
campaigns of the time in order to see what light this casts upon the
process of pressure group activity and policy change.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Not available | ||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.499578 | DOI: | Not available | ||
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