Vivien Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 4790703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vivien Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vivien |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Because I Could Stop for Death
This article focuses on Florida’s death row in the 1960s and 1970s when executions stopped, even though juries continued to return capital verdicts for murder and (until 1977) rape. It first challenges the conventional wisdom surrounding the moratorium years as there were no executions in Florida from mid-May 1964 until May 1979. It investigates the overlapping governor-initiated pauses, court-ordered postponements, and significant state and nati…
The End of Public Execution
Journal Article The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South. By Michael Ayers Trotti Get access The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South. By Michael Ayers Trotti (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. xi plus 251 pp. $32.95). Vivien Miller Vivien Miller University of Nottingham, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on…
“I wanted satisfaction and I got it”
This article provides the first full study of capital and non-capital homicides committed by women in Florida in the interwar years and their treatment in the maturing Jim Crow criminal legal system of an active execution state. Over ninety percent of convicted female killers were African American, who were dramatically over-represented in homicide arrests and prosecutions. Unusually, two white women were sentenced to death in 1926 and 1927 in a …
Vitriol throwing in Victorian America
This article focuses on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when caustic and corrosive substances such as concentrated sulphuric acid or carbolic acid were easily available. Acid was extremely portable, as bottles and syringes could be successfully concealed in coat and skirt pockets. Throwing, squirting, spraying, or pouring acid was a fairly accurate means of harming specific areas of the body or damaging clothing. Vitriol thrower…
“A Ringer Was Used to Make the Killing”
Peter Christian “Paddy” Barrie was a seasoned fraudster who transferred his horse doping and horse substitution skills from British to North American racetracks in the 1920s. His thoroughbred ringers were entered in elite races to guarantee winnings for syndicates and betting rings in the Prohibition-era United States. This case study of a professional travelling criminal and the challenges he posed for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in …
Transnational Penal Cultures
Taken by Force
(2009). Taken by Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe during World War II. By J. Robert Lilly. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 385-387
The Southern Past
Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900
This study draws on a variety of sources, including the reports and correspondence of prison inspectors and letters from prisoners and their families, to explore the history of the African-American men and women whose labour made Alabama's prison system the most profitable in the country
Insane Sisters; or, The Price Paid for Challenging a Company Town
Journal Article Insane Sisters; on The Price Paid for Challenging a Company Town. By Gregg Andrews. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. xiv, 262 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1240-9.) Get access Vivien Miller Vivien Miller Middlesex University, London, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1528–1529, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674831 P…
Taken by Force
(2009). Taken by Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe during World War II. By J. Robert Lilly. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 385-387
Insane Sisters; or, The Price Paid for Challenging a Company Town
Journal Article Insane Sisters; on The Price Paid for Challenging a Company Town. By Gregg Andrews. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. xiv, 262 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1240-9.) Get access Vivien Miller Vivien Miller Middlesex University, London, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1528–1529, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674831 P…
Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900
This study draws on a variety of sources, including the reports and correspondence of prison inspectors and letters from prisoners and their families, to explore the history of the African-American men and women whose labour made Alabama's prison system the most profitable in the country
The Southern Past
Taken by Force
(2009). Taken by Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe during World War II. By J. Robert Lilly. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 385-387
Transnational Penal Cultures
“A Ringer Was Used to Make the Killing”
Peter Christian “Paddy” Barrie was a seasoned fraudster who transferred his horse doping and horse substitution skills from British to North American racetracks in the 1920s. His thoroughbred ringers were entered in elite races to guarantee winnings for syndicates and betting rings in the Prohibition-era United States. This case study of a professional travelling criminal and the challenges he posed for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in …
Vitriol throwing in Victorian America
This article focuses on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when caustic and corrosive substances such as concentrated sulphuric acid or carbolic acid were easily available. Acid was extremely portable, as bottles and syringes could be successfully concealed in coat and skirt pockets. Throwing, squirting, spraying, or pouring acid was a fairly accurate means of harming specific areas of the body or damaging clothing. Vitriol thrower…
“I wanted satisfaction and I got it”
This article provides the first full study of capital and non-capital homicides committed by women in Florida in the interwar years and their treatment in the maturing Jim Crow criminal legal system of an active execution state. Over ninety percent of convicted female killers were African American, who were dramatically over-represented in homicide arrests and prosecutions. Unusually, two white women were sentenced to death in 1926 and 1927 in a …
The End of Public Execution
Journal Article The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South. By Michael Ayers Trotti Get access The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South. By Michael Ayers Trotti (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. xi plus 251 pp. $32.95). Vivien Miller Vivien Miller University of Nottingham, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on…
Because I Could Stop for Death
This article focuses on Florida’s death row in the 1960s and 1970s when executions stopped, even though juries continued to return capital verdicts for murder and (until 1977) rape. It first challenges the conventional wisdom surrounding the moratorium years as there were no executions in Florida from mid-May 1964 until May 1979. It investigates the overlapping governor-initiated pauses, court-ordered postponements, and significant state and nati…
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