This study reassesses the criminal body from sentencing to execution and afterlife, using the nineteenth-century Red Barn murder as a case study. Positioned within the burgeoning field of medical humanities, it places culture and power at the centre of debates surrounding criminal justice and public punishment.
1. The Murder in the Red Barn 2. The Criminal Body Dismembered 3. The Criminal Body Remembered Appendix 1: Crime, Trial, and Dismemberment Appendix 2: Representations and Afterlives