Seal, Lizzie and Neale, Alexa (2019) Encountering the archive: researching race, racialisation and the death penalty in England and Wales, 1900–65. In: Creutzfeldt, Naomi, Mason, Marc and McConnachie, Kirsten (eds.) Routledge handbook of socio-legal theory and methods. Routledge, London, pp. 289-300. ISBN 9781138592902

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Abstract

This chapter discusses methodological issues related to carrying out archival research for a project on race, racialisation and the death penalty in twentieth-century England and Wales. This is the first study on capital punishment in England and Wales to focus on ‘race’, despite the significant over-representation of black and other minority ethnic (BME) individuals in terms of the application of execution. We explore how archival case files, which contain documents such as depositions and trial transcripts, are indispensable sources for reconstructing criminal justice processes of the past. We illustrate this through discussion of one of the cases from our project, Lee Kun, who was hanged in 1916 for the murder of Elsie Goddard.

Item Type:	Book Section
Schools and Departments:	School of Law, Politics and Sociology > Sociology
Depositing User:	Alexa Hannah Leah Neale
Date Deposited:	23 Apr 2020 09:26
Last Modified:	23 Apr 2020 14:33
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/90981

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