Gender and Crime in Modern Europe
Gender and Crime in Modern Europe

Author: Margaret L. Arnot

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9781857287455

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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.

Gender And Crime In Modern Europe
Gender And Crime In Modern Europe

Author: Meg Arnot

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1135361088

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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.

Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600-1914
Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600-1914

Author: Manon van der Heijden

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-30

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1108477712

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Places female criminality within its everyday context, bringing together the most current research on crime and gender.

Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main
Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main

Author: Jeannette Kamp

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-12-09

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 9004388443

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This book charts the lives of (suspected) thieves, illegitimate mothers and vagrants in early modern Frankfurt. The book highlights the gender differences in recorded criminality and the way that they were shaped by the local context. Women played a prominent role in recorded crime in this period, and could even make up half of all defendants in specific European cities. At the same time, there were also large regional differences. Women’s crime patterns in Frankfurt were both similar and different to those of other cities. Informal control within the household played a significant role and influenced the prosecution patterns of authorities. This impacted men and women differently, and created clear distinctions within the system between settled locals and unsettled migrants.

Women and Crime in Early Modern Holland
Women and Crime in Early Modern Holland

Author: Manon van der Heijden

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-08-01

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 9004314121

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Crime is men’s business, isn’t it? Women are responsible for 10 percent of crime in Europe. Yet, if we look at the Dutch Republic in the early modern period, we find that in the towns of Holland women played a much larger role in crime. In a number of early modern towns about half of the criminals convicted in court were women. These women were in vulnerable positions and thus more likely to become involved in crime. They also had a relatively independent status and led remarkably public lives. Manon van der Heijden convincingly shows that it is the very combination of women’s vulnerability and independence that accounts for the high female crime rates in Holland between 1600 and 1800.

Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Author: Marianna Muravyeva

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0415537231

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This book attempts to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. It tests, verifies, and challenges the methodology and use the concept(s) of gender specifically applicable to the period of great change and transition. The volume contains theoretical discussion supplemented by case studies of specific practices such as mysticism, witchcraft, crime, and sexual behavior.

The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime
The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime

Author: Rosemary Gartner

Publisher: Oxford Handbooks

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 745

ISBN-13: 0199838704

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The editors, Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy, have assembled a diverse cast of criminologists, historians, legal scholars, psychologists, and sociologists from a number of countries to discuss key concepts and debates central to the field. The Handbook includes examinations of the historical and contemporary patterns of women's and men's involvement in crime; as well as biological, psychological, and social science perspectives on gender, sex, and criminal activity. Several essays discuss the ways in which sex and gender influence legal and popular reactions to crime. An important theme throughout The Handbook is the intersection of sex and gender with ethnicity, class, age, peer groups, and community as influences on crime and justice. Individual chapters investigate both conventional topics - such as domestic abuse and sexual violence - and topics that have only recently drawn the attention of scholars - such as human trafficking, honor killing, gender violence during war, state rape, and genocide.

Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany
Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany

Author: Joy Wiltenburg

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2013-01-07

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 081393303X

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With the growth of printing in early modern Germany, crime quickly became a subject of wide public discourse. Sensational crime reports, often featuring multiple murders within families, proliferated as authors probed horrific events for religious meaning. Coinciding with heightened witch panics and economic crisis, the spike in crime fears revealed a continuum between fears of the occult and more mundane dangers. In Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany, Joy Wiltenburg explores the beginnings of crime sensationalism from the early sixteenth century into the seventeenth century and beyond. Comparing the depictions of crime in popular publications with those in archival records, legal discourse, and imaginative literature, Wiltenburg highlights key social anxieties and analyzes how crime texts worked to shape public perceptions and mentalities. Reports regularly featured familial destruction, flawed economic relations, and the apocalyptic thinking of Protestant clergy. Wiltenburg examines how such literature expressed and shaped cultural attitudes while at the same time reinforcing governmental authority. She also shows how the emotional inflections of crime stories influenced the growth of early modern public discourse, so often conceived in terms of rational exchange of ideas.

Gender, Violence and Attitudes
Gender, Violence and Attitudes

Author: Satu Lidman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-09

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1351600052

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Gender, Violence and Attitudes explores the history of gender-based violence in early modern Europe, particularly intimate-partner violence and sexual violence. It also investigates the legacy of gender-based violence through the Enlightenment to the present day and offers a historical background to highly topical human rights issues. Although the individual subjects of gender and the history of violence are not new topics, the gendering of violence has received little examination. Within this book, the history of attitudes and practices related to gender and power are analysed, and the nature of violence, justice and societal considerations of gender are explored as cultural constructs: they have the capacity to change over time, although there also is a tendency for continuity. The study is based on a wide range of sources including marriage guides, poems, plays, legal texts and court records exploring deep-rooted violence phenomena in Sweden (including historical Finland), the German territories, England and, to some extent, France. Offering a detailed analysis of gender and the culture of violence, Gender, Violence and Attitudes is essential reading for students and general readers who wish to understand the history of violence and its continual association with gender from early modern Europe to the present day.

Everyday Crime, Criminal Justice and Gender in Early Modern Bologna
Everyday Crime, Criminal Justice and Gender in Early Modern Bologna

Author: Sanne Muurling

Publisher: Crime and City in History

Published: 2020-12

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9789004440586

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"Female protagonists are commonly overlooked in the history of crime; especially in early modern Italy, where women's scope of action is often portrayed as heavily restricted. This book redresses the notion of Italian women's passivity, arguing that women's crimes were far too common to be viewed as an anomaly. Based on over two thousand criminal complaints and investigation dossiers, Sanne Muurling charts the multifaceted impact of gender on patterns of recorded crime in early modern Bologna. While various socioeconomic and legal mechanisms withdrew women from the criminal justice process, the casebooks also reveal that women - as criminal offenders and savvy litigants - had an active hand in keeping the wheels of the court spinning"--