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Acid Crime

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Penilaian

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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 highest rates of acid attacks in the world) from interviews with over 20 convicted offenders and from police case files relating to over 1,000 crimes involving corrosive substances. This book adds significantly to the international literature on weapons carrying and use, which to date has predominantly focused around the possession and use ofguns and knives.

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Inventory Code	Barcode	Call Number	Location	Status
2108000152	EB0005540	364 Hop a	Central Library (OPAC)	Available

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Series Title

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Call Number

364 Hop a

Publisher

Springer : Palgrave Macmillan Cham., 2021

Collation

xi, 204p.:ill

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-030-62296-1

Classification

364

Content Type

Ebook

Media Type

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Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

1

Subject(s)

Criminology

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