From: "Mathieu Deflem" <deflemm-AT-sri.soc.purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 18:18:49 EST Subject: Moi, Pierre Riviere Friends, I am trying to find information on memoires/confessions written by convicts before they were put to death, much like the Pierre Riviere case reported by Foucault and others. I wonder whether such writings were relatively rare/common and if and where the practice has been discussed in secondary literature. I have found a source similar to Rivierre's. Also on the internet there is a related document of a pastor witnessing an execution (cf. the opening pages of Discipline and Punish). http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6220/ Many thanks, Mathieu Mathieu Deflem Assistant Professor of Sociology Purdue University 1365 Stone Hall W. Lafayette IN 47907 DeflemM-AT-sri.soc.purdue.edu
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