Katherine D Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5532782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine D Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine D |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON K D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5035-1752 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Murder and the Making of English CSI, by Ian Burney and Neil Pemberton
This book by Ian Burney and Neil Pemberton identifies and explains the origins of modern crime scene investigation (CSI) as a medico-scientific system with networks of institutions, concepts and practices focused on the crime scene as a distinct space ‘bounded conceptually and operationally by explicit rules of practice’ (p. 3). Using homicide as a lens through which to examine this process, the book sets up an important distinction between two p…
Victoria Bates. Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England
This carefully argued and fascinating study demonstrates that medical witnesses played a significant role in constructing and reinforcing rape myths in the years 1850-1914, a period of growing public concern about sexual offences and working-class sexuality. The principal novelty of Bates’s approach lies in its focus on age. Legally defined age categories of sexual consent did not necessarily mirror popular understandings of the difference betwee…
Mad Doctors in the Dock
Reviewed by: Mad Doctors in the Dock: Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913 by Joel Peter Eigen Katherine D. Watson Joel Peter Eigen. Mad Doctors in the Dock: Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. xiii + 206 pp. Ill. $40.00 (978-1-4214-2048-6). Readers familiar with Joel Eigen’s work will welcome this last in a series of three monographs that examine the insanity defenses given in trials held at London’…
Medical Negligence in Victorian Britain
Women, violent crime and criminal justice in Georgian Wales
This article examines encounters of women with the criminal justice system in Wales during the century before the Courts of Great Sessions were abolished in 1830. Drawing on evidence from cases of sexual assault and homicide, it argues that women who killed were rarely convicted or punished harshly. A gendered discretion of sorts also acted against rape victims, as trials never resulted in conviction. Using violence as a lens, the paper reveals a…
Infanticide, Religion And Community in the British Isles, 1720–1920
This special issue focuses on the crime of infanticide in three of the four constituent nations of the British Isles: England, Scotland and Ireland. The papers collectively point to the fact that although families and communities could be a source of support for women in crisis, they were also the route by which many instances of infanticide were revealed. In addition, the evidence here suggests that the signifi cance of religious cohesiveness to…
Religion, Community and The Infanticidal Mother
The existing literature on the history of infanticide has typically considered the crime as a reaction to a specifi c set of diffi cult individual circumstances, but has not attempted to place the infanticidal mother within a longer personal timeframe. Nor has the role of her religious belief been much examined. This article investigates three key elements in the case of Rebecca Smith (1807–1849), the last woman executed in England for the murder…
Poison, Detection, and the Victorian Imagination
The 1856 trial of the Rugeley Poisoner (William Palmer), his conviction, refusal to confess and the subsequent medico-legal controversy that surrounded the case form the backdrop to this interdisciplinary study of the role played by criminal poisoning and poison detectives (toxicologists) in mid-Victorian society. The book is principally an investigation of ‘the application of medical and scientific expertise to matters of criminal law’ (p. 3), u…
Idle Hands
Idle Hands is the first major social history of unemployment in Britain covering the last 200 years. It focuses on the experiences of working people in becoming unemployed, coping with unemployment and searching for work, and their reactions and responses to their problems. Direct evidence of the impact of unemployment drawn from extensive personal biographies complements economic and statistical analysis
Classical Islam, a History 600-1258
Greek Bronzes
Women, violent crime and criminal justice in Georgian Wales
This article examines encounters of women with the criminal justice system in Wales during the century before the Courts of Great Sessions were abolished in 1830. Drawing on evidence from cases of sexual assault and homicide, it argues that women who killed were rarely convicted or punished harshly. A gendered discretion of sorts also acted against rape victims, as trials never resulted in conviction. Using violence as a lens, the paper reveals a…
Religion, Community and The Infanticidal Mother
The existing literature on the history of infanticide has typically considered the crime as a reaction to a specifi c set of diffi cult individual circumstances, but has not attempted to place the infanticidal mother within a longer personal timeframe. Nor has the role of her religious belief been much examined. This article investigates three key elements in the case of Rebecca Smith (1807–1849), the last woman executed in England for the murder…
Greek Bronzes
Classical Islam, a History 600-1258
Idle Hands
Idle Hands is the first major social history of unemployment in Britain covering the last 200 years. It focuses on the experiences of working people in becoming unemployed, coping with unemployment and searching for work, and their reactions and responses to their problems. Direct evidence of the impact of unemployment drawn from extensive personal biographies complements economic and statistical analysis
Poison, Detection, and the Victorian Imagination
The 1856 trial of the Rugeley Poisoner (William Palmer), his conviction, refusal to confess and the subsequent medico-legal controversy that surrounded the case form the backdrop to this interdisciplinary study of the role played by criminal poisoning and poison detectives (toxicologists) in mid-Victorian society. The book is principally an investigation of ‘the application of medical and scientific expertise to matters of criminal law’ (p. 3), u…
Infanticide, Religion And Community in the British Isles, 1720–1920
This special issue focuses on the crime of infanticide in three of the four constituent nations of the British Isles: England, Scotland and Ireland. The papers collectively point to the fact that although families and communities could be a source of support for women in crisis, they were also the route by which many instances of infanticide were revealed. In addition, the evidence here suggests that the signifi cance of religious cohesiveness to…
Religion, Community and The Infanticidal Mother
The existing literature on the history of infanticide has typically considered the crime as a reaction to a specifi c set of diffi cult individual circumstances, but has not attempted to place the infanticidal mother within a longer personal timeframe. Nor has the role of her religious belief been much examined. This article investigates three key elements in the case of Rebecca Smith (1807–1849), the last woman executed in England for the murder…
Women, violent crime and criminal justice in Georgian Wales
This article examines encounters of women with the criminal justice system in Wales during the century before the Courts of Great Sessions were abolished in 1830. Drawing on evidence from cases of sexual assault and homicide, it argues that women who killed were rarely convicted or punished harshly. A gendered discretion of sorts also acted against rape victims, as trials never resulted in conviction. Using violence as a lens, the paper reveals a…
Medical Negligence in Victorian Britain
Mad Doctors in the Dock
Reviewed by: Mad Doctors in the Dock: Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913 by Joel Peter Eigen Katherine D. Watson Joel Peter Eigen. Mad Doctors in the Dock: Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. xiii + 206 pp. Ill. $40.00 (978-1-4214-2048-6). Readers familiar with Joel Eigen’s work will welcome this last in a series of three monographs that examine the insanity defenses given in trials held at London’…
Murder and the Making of English CSI, by Ian Burney and Neil Pemberton
This book by Ian Burney and Neil Pemberton identifies and explains the origins of modern crime scene investigation (CSI) as a medico-scientific system with networks of institutions, concepts and practices focused on the crime scene as a distinct space ‘bounded conceptually and operationally by explicit rules of practice’ (p. 3). Using homicide as a lens through which to examine this process, the book sets up an important distinction between two p…
Victoria Bates. Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England
This carefully argued and fascinating study demonstrates that medical witnesses played a significant role in constructing and reinforcing rape myths in the years 1850-1914, a period of growing public concern about sexual offences and working-class sexuality. The principal novelty of Bates’s approach lies in its focus on age. Legally defined age categories of sexual consent did not necessarily mirror popular understandings of the difference betwee…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works)