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The statistics of tragedy
Author(s) -
Brent Eric S.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2015.00838.x
Subject(s) - desertion , tragedy (event) , front (military) , punishment (psychology) , capital punishment , history , criminology , law , political science , psychology , geography , psychiatry , social psychology , meteorology
On the Western Front during the First World War, 237 British soldiers were executed for desertion. Was the punishment an effective deterrent, or were lives needlessly wasted? Eric S. Brent investigates