Clark, T. orcid.org/0000-0001-6871-629X (2021) Hypnotising evil : Myra Hindley, hypnosis, and criminal investigations in the UK. Contemporary British History, 35 (2). pp. 187-209. ISSN 1361-9462
Abstract
In 1987 Myra Hindley submitted a petition to the Home Office requesting permission to undergo hypnosis in an attempt to locate the grave of Keith Bennett. Whilst the request was initially declined, the issue continued to be an administrative challenge for the Home Office for the fifteen years that followed. Drawing on her ‘prison records’ currently held in The National Archive, this paper details the reasons for the request, how the policy response to it was developed, maintained, and then changed, and how it shaped broader orientations to the use of hypnosis in criminal investigations.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Contemporary British History. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Myra Hindley; hynosis; crime; evil |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2020 08:48 |
Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2022 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13619462.2020.1807336 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:167395 |