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Gender and crime in modern Europe

This volume explores the construction of gender norms and examines how they were reflected and reinforced by legal institutional practices in modern Europe.
Print Book, English, 2003
Routledge, London, 2003
Aufsatzsammlung
XV, 288 Seiten 24 cm
9781857287455, 9781857287462, 1857287452, 1857287460
249726924
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