From the ‘Death of a Female Unknown’ to the Life of Margaret Dockerty: Rediscovering a Nineteenth Century Victim of Crime

Sandford-Couch, Clare; Rutherford, Helen

dc.contributor.author	Sandford-Couch, Clare
dc.contributor.author	Rutherford, Helen
dc.date.accessioned	2019-06-11T10:37:32Z
dc.date.available	2019-06-11T10:37:32Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.identifier.citation	Sandford-Couch, C. and Rutherford, H. (2018). 'From the ‘Death of a Female Unknown’ to the Life of Margaret Dockerty: Rediscovering a Nineteenth Century Victim of Crime', SOLON Law, Crime and History, 8(1), p. 21-37.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	2045-9238
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/14285
dc.description.abstract	On 1 January 1863, a woman was brutally raped and beaten to death in Newcastle upon Tyne. Her murderer was to be tried, convicted, and finally executed for murder. However, he is not the subject of this piece. Historically, the study of the criminal law has focused too heavily on the perpetrators of crimes. This article attempts to establish the victim, Margaret Dockerty, as an individual and to offer some social, cultural, economic and historical context for, and background to, her life.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Plymouth
dc.rights	Attribution 3.0 United States	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/	*
dc.subject	victim	en_US
dc.subject	murder	en_US
dc.subject	Irish	en_US
dc.subject	Newcastle upon Tyne	en_US
dc.subject	police surgeon	en_US
dc.subject	intemperance	en_US
dc.subject	clothing	en_US
dc.subject	legal history	en_US
dc.subject	social history	en_US
dc.subject	microhistory	en_US
dc.title	From the ‘Death of a Female Unknown’ to the Life of Margaret Dockerty: Rediscovering a Nineteenth Century Victim of Crime	en_US
plymouth.issue	1
plymouth.volume	8
plymouth.journal	SOLON Law, Crime and History