Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland

Incest, Rape, Lewd and Libidinous Practices, 1918-1930

Louise Heren (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-22777-4 (ISBN)

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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?

Louise Heren is Research Affiliate in the Department of Criminal History at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Introduction
1. Scotland in Context
Part I: Intimate Violence
2. The Love Whose Name Others Dared Not Speak: Incest
3. Outrages on Little Girls: Sexual Violence Against Girls Under 16 Years
4. Vice and Virtue: Sexual Violence Against Adult Women

Part II: Recourse to the Law
5. Getting to Court: From Reporting to Prosecuting Sexual Crime
6. Behind Closed Doors: The Judicial Process from Verdict to Sentencing
7. Conclusion: Sexual Entitlement and Arrogance

Erscheinungsdatum	21.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-22777-3 / 1350227773
ISBN-13	978-1-350-22777-4 / 9781350227774
Zustand	Neuware