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A medico-legal perspective on the practice of Garrotting
Medico-Legal Journal (2011)
  • Y.G. Yitna
  • Andra le Roux-Kemp, City University of Hong Kong
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Abstract
The term garrotting, today, suggests a swift and fatal action that results in immediate death. We hear of financial or economic garrotting and the expressionis particularly well-liked by politicians to express total cut-off. In Thomas Hardy’s bibliography, mention is even made of literary garrotting: a term said to neatly combine censorship with economic strangulation (Millgate 2004). The image that comes to most people’s minds, however, is that of beheading and/or strangulation; not unlike the imagery of the infamous French Guillotine or the blue etched drawing by Goya entitled The Garrotted Man (El agarrotado [1778–1780] Francisco de Goya y Lucientes). This article will focus on this last association of the word “garrotting”.
Keywords
  • Criminology,
  • Garrotting
Disciplines
Publication Date
2011
Citation Information
Y.G. Yitna and Andra le Roux-Kemp. "A medico-legal perspective on the practice of Garrotting" Medico-Legal Journal Vol. 79 Iss. 1 (2011) p. 15 - 25
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/andra-leroux-kemp/8/