Title Women's criminality in Europe, 1600-1914 / edited by Manon van der Heijden, Marion Pluskota, Sanne Muurling

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume.) Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Women and Crime in History -- Introduction -- Violence, Space and Gender -- Prosecution and Punishment -- Representation of Crime -- Conclusion -- 2 Explaining Crime and Gender in Europe between 1600 and 1900 -- Introduction -- Notions of Public Roles and Gender Differences in Crime -- Moral and Legal Norms of Public Roles -- Urbanisation -- Family Systems -- Labour Participation -- Rising Living Standards and Welfare Arrangements Conclusion: A Model of Determinants -- Part I Violence, Space and Gender -- 3 Women, Violence and the Uses of Justice Before the Criminal Court of Early Modern Bologna -- Introduction -- The Legal Position of Early Modern Italian Women -- Women and the Uses of Justice in Early Modern Europe -- Violence and Access to the Bolognese Criminal Court -- The Urban Context of Female Litigation -- Litigation as a Negotiation and Threat -- Forced Peace -- Conclusion -- 4 The 'Vanishing' Female Perpetrator of Common Assault -- Introduction -- Women and Crime in Late Nineteenth-Century England Women and Crime in Late Nineteenth-Century Stafford -- Women and Violent Crime in Late Nineteenth-Century Stafford -- The 'Vanishing' Female Perpetrator of Common Assault -- Part II Prosecution and Punishment -- 5 Gender and the Prosecution of Adultery in Geneva, 1550-1700 -- Introduction -- Geneva in a European Context -- Men Prosecuted for Adultery -- Women Prosecuted for Adultery -- Conclusion -- 6 'Find the Lady': Tracing and Describing the Incarcerated Female Population of London in 1881 -- Introduction -- London, 1881: Our Sources, Case Study, and Methodology London's Female Prison Population at a Glance -- Conclusion -- 7 Gender and Release from Imprisonment: Convict Licensing Systems in Mid- to Late Nineteenth-Century England -- Introduction -- State Intervention and the Convict System -- Penal Servitude and Conditional Licencing -- Efficacy of Such Refuges -- Conclusion -- 8 Female and Male Prisoners in Queensland 1880-1899: Re-entry, Risk Factors and Recidivism -- Introduction -- Recidivism -- Offence Types -- Sentences -- Urban Context of Offending -- Age -- Migration -- Other Risk Factors -- Conclusion -- Part III Representation of Crime 9 Girls, Young Women and Crime: Perceptions, Realities and Responses in a Long-Term Perspective -- Introduction -- Limitations and Pitfalls of Comparing Girls' Experiences across Three Centuries -- Perceptions: Anxieties and Discourses -- Realities: Offences and Prosecution -- Sinful Sexualities and Problem Girls -- Young Female Thieves -- Vagrancy: Migrants and 'Disorderly' Girls -- Responses: Institutionalisation and Pathologisation -- 10 'Monstrous and Indefensible'? Newspaper Accounts of Sexual Assaults on Children in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales -- Introduction Summary "Research on gender and crime has never been as dynamic and innovative as it is today. There are indeed good reasons for historians and criminologists to pay attention to gender in their examinations on crime. First, the inclusion of gender as a category of analysis of crime has sharpened our understanding of men's and women's criminality in various ways: the motivations behind criminal action, the organization of crime, the prosecution of offenders and finally, the representation of crime. Secondly, criminal behaviour is strongly influenced by the socio-economic circumstances in which men and women live(d) and gender expectations. Such gender expectations resulted in a general bias towards women and crime; women were deemed less likely to commit crime or only "typically female" crimes such as moral offences, witchcraft and infanticide. These biases caused gendered prosecution patterns in the past, as well as incorrect assumptions by those studying crime in the modern era. As contemporaries' views on criminality were gendered, early research from historians and criminologists initially followed a similar path. When scholars eventually turned towards the subject of criminality in relation to women, they often relayed the dominant views on women's victimisation, passivity and innocence.1 Certain academic publications in criminology still claim that we are currently experiencing 'seismic historical changes' with regards to female crime rates.2 Accepting women as potential criminals, researching the role of gender as influence in criminal behaviour and not being reluctant to highlight the limitations of this category of analysis are necessary steps in history and criminology to understand women's criminality"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Female offenders -- Europe -- History Crime -- Europe -- History Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Europe -- History 71.65 criminality as a social problem. 15.70 history of Europe. Crime. Female offenders. Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. Frau Frauenkriminalität Kriminalität Weibliche Kriminelle Europe. Europa Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book Author Heijden, Manon van der, 1966- editor. Pluskota, Marion, editor Muurling, Sanne, 1987- editor. ISBN 9781108805926 1108805922 9781108774543 1108774547 9781108732970 1108732976

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