Placing female criminality within its everyday context, this authoritative volume brings together the most current research on the relationship between crime and gender, and examines the urban socio-economic and cultural contexts that produced and circumscribed criminal agency in the Western world between 1600 and 1914.
Placing female criminality within its everyday context, this authoritative volume brings together the most current research on the relationship between crime and gender, and examines the urban socio-economic and cultural contexts that produced and circumscribed criminal agency in the Western world between 1600 and 1914.
1. Introduction: women and crime in history Sanne Muurling, Marion Pluskota and Manon van der Heijden; 2. Explaining crime and gender in Europe between 1600 and 1900 Manon van der Heijden; Part I. Violence, Space and Gender: 3. Women, violence and the uses of justice before the Criminal Court of early modern Bologna Sanne Muurling; 4. The 'vanishing' female perpetrator of common assault Jo Turner; Part II. Prosecution and Punishment: 5. Gender and the prosecution of adultery in Geneva, 1550-1700 Sara Beam; 6. 'Find the lady': tracing and describing the incarcerated female population of London in 1881 Lucy Williams and Barry Godfrey; 7. Gender and release from imprisonment: convict licensing systems in mid- to late-nineteenth-century England Helen Johnston and David J. Cox; 8. Female and male prisoners in Queensland 1880-1899: re-entry, risk factors, recidivism Alana Piper, Catrien Bijleveld, Susan Dennison and Jonathan de Bruin; Part III. Representation of Crime: 9. Girls, young women and crime: perceptions, realities and responses in a long-term perspective Sarah Auspert, Margo de Koster and Veerle Massin; 10. 'Monstrous and indefensible'? Newspaper accounts of sexual assaults on children in nineteenth-century England and Wales Daniel J. R. Grey; 11. Gender and Dutch newspaper reports of intimate violence, 1880-1910 Clare Wilkinson.
1. Introduction: women and crime in history Sanne Muurling, Marion Pluskota and Manon van der Heijden; 2. Explaining crime and gender in Europe between 1600 and 1900 Manon van der Heijden; Part I. Violence, Space and Gender: 3. Women, violence and the uses of justice before the Criminal Court of early modern Bologna Sanne Muurling; 4. The 'vanishing' female perpetrator of common assault Jo Turner; Part II. Prosecution and Punishment: 5. Gender and the prosecution of adultery in Geneva, 1550-1700 Sara Beam; 6. 'Find the lady': tracing and describing the incarcerated female population of London in 1881 Lucy Williams and Barry Godfrey; 7. Gender and release from imprisonment: convict licensing systems in mid- to late-nineteenth-century England Helen Johnston and David J. Cox; 8. Female and male prisoners in Queensland 1880-1899: re-entry, risk factors, recidivism Alana Piper, Catrien Bijleveld, Susan Dennison and Jonathan de Bruin; Part III. Representation of Crime: 9. Girls, young women and crime: perceptions, realities and responses in a long-term perspective Sarah Auspert, Margo de Koster and Veerle Massin; 10. 'Monstrous and indefensible'? Newspaper accounts of sexual assaults on children in nineteenth-century England and Wales Daniel J. R. Grey; 11. Gender and Dutch newspaper reports of intimate violence, 1880-1910 Clare Wilkinson.
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