Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600-1914 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Heijden, Manon van der

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together the most current research on the relationship between crime and gender in the West between 1600 and 1914, this authoritative volume places female criminality within its everyday context. It reveals how their socio-economic and cultural contexts provided women with 'agency' against a range of European backdrops, despite a fundamentally patriarchal criminal justice system, and includes in-depth analysis of original sources to show how changing living standards, employment, schooling and welfare arrangements had a direct impact on the quality of life of working class women, their risk of becoming involved in crime, and the likelihood of being prosecuted for it. Rather than treating women's criminality as always exceptional, this study draws out the similarities between female and male criminality, demonstrating how an understanding of specific cultural and socio-economic contexts is essential to explain female criminality, both why their criminal patterns changed, and how their crimes were represented by contemporaries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108805148
• Artikelnr.: 62746306

Inhaltsangabe

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.