Acid Crime: Context, Motivation and Prevention

by Matt Hopkins, Lucy Neville, Teela Sanders

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030622959
• ISBN13: 9783030622954
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"