Gender And Crime In Modern Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-1-85728-745-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

Reihe: Women's and Gender History

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.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arnot, Meg

Usborne, Cornelie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Meg Arnot, Cornelie Usborne