Acid attacks in Britain, 1760-1975 / Katherine D. Watson.
Watson, Katherine (Katherine Denise), author.
2023
HV6618 .W38 2023
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Title Acid attacks in Britain, 1760-1975 / Katherine D. Watson.
Author Watson, Katherine (Katherine Denise), author.
ISBN 9783031272721 (electronic bk.)
3031272722 (electronic bk.)
3031272714
9783031272714
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27272-1
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023].
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xv, 135 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-27272-1 doi
Call Number HV6618 .W38 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.1555
Summary 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). .
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographcial references and index.
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Series World histories of crime, culture and violence.
Available in Other Form ACID ATTACKS IN BRITAIN, 1760-1975.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
Acid Throwing in History and Historiography
Laws Against Acid Throwing
Aims, Methods and Sources
Structure and Argument
Chapter 2: Facts and Figures
Incidence and Location
Corrosive Fluids: Effects and Impact
Acid Throwers and Their Victims
Chapter 3: Motives and Contexts
The Origins of Acid Throwing
Motives for Acid Throwing
Anger, Shame and Despair
Case Study: Frederick John Byott, 1971

Continuity and Change in Motives for Acid Throwing
Chapter 4: Law and Justice
Trial Outcomes and Sentencing
Case Study: Ellen Bevan, 1885
Provocation as a Mitigatory Defence
Medicalised Responses to Acid Throwers
Chapter 5: Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Manuscript Sources
National Records of Scotland
The National Archives, Kew
The Signet Library, Edinburgh
Online Printed Primary Sources
Printed Works
Newspapers, Journals and Periodicals
Secondary Sources
Online Publications
Websites
Index

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