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Hate crimes. --- Hate crimes --- Hate crime investigation. --- Bias crimes --- Bias-related crimes --- Hate-motivated crimes --- Hate offenses --- Crime --- Criminal investigation

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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 of guns and knives. 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.

Violent crimes. --- Offenses against the person. --- Violent crimes --- Prevention. --- Crimes, Violent --- Crimes of violence --- Crime --- Violence --- Abuse of persons --- Crimes against persons --- Crimes against the person --- Offenses against persons --- Persons --- Criminal behavior. --- Criminology. --- Critical criminology. --- Law and the social sciences. --- Criminal Behavior. --- Crime Control and Security. --- Critical Criminology. --- Socio-Legal Studies. --- Social sciences and law --- Social sciences --- Sociological jurisprudence --- Radical criminology --- Criminology --- Criminals --- Criminal psychology --- Deviant behavior --- Study and teaching

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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 of guns and knives. 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.

Social problems --- Sociology of law --- Criminology. Victimology --- Criminal law. Criminal procedure --- Law --- Social law. Labour law --- Higher education --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- sociologie --- strafrecht --- recht --- criminologie --- sociaal recht --- criminaliteit