Meg Arnot (ed.)

Gender And Crime In Modern Europe

Herausgeber: Arnot, Meg; Usborne, Cornelie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work explores the construction of gender norms and examines how they were reflected and reinforced by legal institutional practices in Europe in this period. taking a gendered approach, criminal prosecution and punishment are discussed in relation to the victims and perpretrators. This volume investigates various representations of femininity by assessing female experiences including wife-beating, divorce, abortion, prostitution, property crime and embezzlement at the work place. In addition, issues such as neglect, sexual abuse and the invention of the juvenile offender are analyzed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781857287455
• ISBN-10: 1857287452
• Artikelnr.: 27200681

Autorenporträt

Meg Arnot, Cornelie Usborne

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
1. Why gender and crime? Aspects of an international debate
2. Gender
crime and justice in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England
3. The trouble with boys: gender and the "invention" of the juvenile offender in early nineteenth-century Britain
4. Women and crime in Imperial Russia
1834-1913: representing realities
5. Crime against marriage? Wife-beating
the law and divorce in nineteenth-century Hamburg
6. Workplace appropriation and the gendering of factory "law": West Yorkshire
1840-80
7. Consuming desires: prostitutes and "customers" at the margins of crime and perversion in France and Britain
c. 1836-85
8. Male crime in nineteenth-century Germany: duelling
9. Dutch difference? The prosecution of unlicensed midwives in the late nineteenth-century Netherlands
10. "Stories more terrifying than the truth itself": narratives of female criminality in fin de siècle Paris
11. The child's word in court: cases of sexual abuse in London
1870-1914
12. Women's crimes
state crimes: abortion in Nazi Germany
13. Gender norms in the Sicilian Mafia
1945-86
Index