TY  - BOOK
TI  - Acid attacks in Britain, 1760-1975
AU  - Watson, Katherine
PY  - 2023
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
LA  - eng
KW  - Assault and battery
KW  - Crimes of passion
KW  - Acids
KW  - Voies de fait
KW  - Crimes passionnels
KW  - Acides
KW  - acid
KW  - History
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
AB  - This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of the largely urban offence once known as vitriol throwing because the substance most commonly used was strong sulphuric acid, oil of vitriol. A relatively rare form of assault, it was motivated largely by revenge or jealousy and, because it was specifically designed to blind and mutilate, commonly targeted the victims face. The incidence of what was thus widely acknowledged to be an exceptionally cruel crime plateaued in the period 18501930 amid a sometimes surprisingly lenient legal response, before declining as a result of post-war social changes. In examining the factors that influenced both the crime and its punishment, the book makes an important contribution to criminal justice history by illuminating the role of gender, law and emotion from the perspective of both victim and perpetrator. Katherine D. Watson is Reader in History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her research interests focus on topics where medicine, crime and the law intersect, particularly in Britain since the seventeenth century. She is the author of Medicine and Justice: Medico-Legal Practice in England and Wales, 17001914 (2020). .
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3696418
SN  - 9783031272721
SN  - 3031272722
SN  - 3031272714
SN  - 9783031272714
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-031-27272-1
T2  - World histories of crime, culture and violence
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/ebsco-3696418
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -