Gender and Crime in Modern Europe
By: Margaret L. Arnot and Cornelie Usborne
Contributors: Usborne, Cornelie
Series: Women's and gender history; Women's and gender history
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780203016992
Subjects: Crime; Sex differences; History; Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration; Discrimination sexuelle dans l'administration de la justice pénale; Histoire
Description: This volume explores the construction of gender norms and examines how they were reflected and reinforced by legal institutional practices in modern Europe.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Why gender and crime? Aspects of an international debate; Gender, crime and justice in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England; The trouble with boys: gender and the ~invention~ of the juvenile offender in early nineteenth-century Britain; Women and crime in Imperial Russia, 1834 1913: representing realities; Crime against marriage? Wife-beating, the law and divorce in nineteenth-century Hamburg; Workplace appropriation and the gendering of factory ~law~: West Yorkshire, 1840 80.; title: Consuming desires: prostitutes and ~customers~ at the margins of crime and perversion in France and Britain, c. 1836 85Male crime in nineteenth-century Germany: duelling; Dutch difference? The prosecution of unlicensed midwives in the late nineteenth-century Netherlands; ~Stories more terrifying than the truth itself~: narratives of female criminality in fin de sicle Paris; The child's word in court: cases of sexual abuse in Lo.