RT Book
T1 Sex and violence in 1920s Scotland: incest, rape, lewd and libidinous practices, 1918-1930
T2 History of crime, deviance and punishment
A1 Heren, Louise
LA English
PP London New York Oxford New Dehli Sydney
PB Bloomsbury Academic
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1870164350
AB Using case records of prosecutions at the Scottish High Court of Justiciary between 1918 and 1930, this book takes a quantitative and qualitative approach to understand sexual violence in Scotland at this time. Analysing legal records alongside victim and witness testimonies, Louise Heren analyses who committed sexual violence against whom, where and how and, to an extent, looks to uncover the victims voice.Assessing how the courts responded, Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland reveals that, despite pejorative views of working-class female behaviour, the successful conversion of prosecutions to convictions was greater than what is seen in modern sexual assault cases. In a society adjusting to post-conflict stresses, there were fears expressed in middle-class circles that those most affected by the First World War might react with violence. However, the High Court archives suggest otherwise. Cases of incest, rape and sexual assault appears to have been endemic, an opportunistic crime against older victims yet often pre-meditated against the youngest; selfish crimes that suggest toxic masculinity among some working-class men. The book concludes with the ultimate question: why did these men perpetrate sexual violence?
CN 364.1530941
SN 9781350227774
K1 Erste Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1950 n. Chr.)
K1 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000
K1 British & Irish history
K1 HIS015090
K1 HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
K1 HISTORY / Social History
K1 Legal History
K1 Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
K1 Schottland
K1 Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien