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Judicial violence and the ‘civilizing process’: Race and the transition from public to private executions in Colonial AustraliaFootnote∗

John Mcguire University of Queensland,
Pages 187-209 | Published online: 29 Sep 2008

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  • I would like to thank Bryan Jamison, Mark Finnane, Martin Stuart‐Fox, Raymond Evans and two anonymous referees. I have chosen to spell the word ‘civilizing’ with a ‘z’ when referring to the concept of the ‘civilizing process’. This appears to be the most common practice among scholars dealing with Elias's work. See. for example, Robert van Krieken, ‘Violence, Self‐discipline and Modernity: Beyond the “Civilizing Process” ‘, Sociological Review, vol. 37, no. 2, 1989, pp. 193–218.

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