Matt Hopkins

Acid Crime

Context, Motivation and Prevention

Buch

This book provides an authoritative overview of the contemporary phenomenon widely labelled as 'acid attacks'. Although once thought of as a predominantly 'gendered crime', acid and other corrosive substances have been used in a range of violence crimes. This book explores the historical use of corrosives in crime, legal definitions of such attacks, the contexts in which corrosives are used, victim characteristics, offender motivations for carrying and decanting corrosives, and preventative strategies. Data is drawn from the international literature and the analysis of primary data collected in the UK (which is thought to have one of the high… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Sanders, Teela / Neville, Lucy

ISBN: 978-3-030-62295-4
EAN: 9783030622954
Produktnummer: 35883239
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 216 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.6 cm 398 g
Auflage: 1st ed. 2021
Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 398

Über den Autor

Matt Hopkins is Associate Professor at the School of Criminology, University of Leicester, UK. Lucy Neville is Lecturer at the School of Criminology, University of Leicester, UK.Teela Sanders is Professor at the School of Criminology, University of Leicester, UK