'Hot under the collar': The garotting moral panic of the 1860s

Pages: 20 - 34
Published: Dec 1, 2017
Abstract
Fear of crime has a history. A revealing episode was the garotting scare of the 1860s, centred on London. An apparently new form of street crime, in which victims were partially strangled by one attacker and robbed by another, prompted immediate social reaction. Opinion in Parliament and the press blamed the crimes on ‘ticket-of-leave’ men, effectively convicts on parole who could no longer be transported to Australia. The whole furore lasted...
Paper Details
Title
'Hot under the collar': The garotting moral panic of the 1860s
Published Date
Dec 1, 2017
Journal
Pages
20 - 34
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