Author: Cassie Watson
I am a historian of forensic medicine and crime in Britain, focusing on the period between 1700 and the First World War. My research is interdisciplinary, drawing on law, medicine and social history of crime. My monograph on medico-legal practice in England and Wales (1700-1914) came out in 2020, and I have just published a book on acid throwing (1760-1975). My next project will be a book-length study of poisoning in the West.
Tackling the ‘Assault Deficit’
Investigating the ‘Assault Deficit’
Legal Process in the Palatinate of Chester: A Hypothetical Project
The Trouble with Eyewitness Identification
A Real and Immediate Risk: Police Encounters with People in Mental Health Crisis
Domestic Dramas, Rash Acts and Tragic Infatuations
Serial Poisoners and the Psychology of Crime
Negligence and the Guilty Mind: A Victorian Case Study
Toxic Masculinity? Nineteenth-Century Criminal Poisoning by English Fathers
“Barbarous Determination”: The Criminal Career of John Orrell
An Episode of Rough Music in Scotland, March 1842
“Mute by the visitation of God, and Guilty!” The trials of John Ferriday at Salford, 1825
Where’s The Harm?
The Dark Side of Victorian Policing
Serial Homicide before ‘Serial Killers’: British Poisoners
Vitriol to Corrosive Fluid: ‘Acid’ Assault in the Twentieth Century
Early Acid Throwing in the British Isles: The Insolence of Weavers
Victorian Crime News: Evidence Which Cannot Err or Deceive?
Highway Robbery at Highbury: The Murder of PC Daly in 1842
Coventry’s Act and Malicious Injury
Online Archives Unlocked: What’s in it for Crime Historians?
Animal Victims of Crime
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Very Serious Pecuniary Loss and Inconvenience: A Jury’s Plea
The Long Arm of the Law Cut Short
Putting Faces to Names: Illustrated Crime Reports in the Late Victorian Press
Prosecuting Homicide on the Coroner’s Inquisition
Execution Delayed: Some Scottish Examples
Murder Confessions 1715–1900: A Preliminary Typology
In their own words? Criminal Depositions and the Voices of the Past
Thomas Scattergood: Forensic Toxicology in Victorian Yorkshire
Acid Attacks in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Mysterious Death: What Price the Medical Jurist?
Doom for Demembring: Assault in Scots Law
Oxford: Crime, Law and the University
Dead Drunk or Just Deviant? Homicide and Alcohol in Wales, 1730-1914
Legal History Miscellany 