Crime, gender, and sexuality in criminal prosecutions
By: edited by Louis A. Knafla.
Contributors: Knafla, Louis A., 1935-
Series: Criminal justice history,; v. 17
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Crime -- Sex differences -- History.; Criminal behavior -- History.; Prosecution -- History.; Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Violence, vendetta, and peacemaking in late medieval Bologna / Trevor Dean; title: Female criminality and subversion in early modern Ireland / Andrea Knox; title: Foucault 'Redux'? : the roles of humanism, protestantism, and an urban elite in creating the London Bridewell, 1500-1560 / Lee Beier; title: Blackmail as a crime of sexual indiscretion in eighteenth-century England / Antony Simpson; title: Henry Mayhew and the criminal classes of Victorian England : the case reopened / David Englander; title: Consolidation of the Raj : notes from a police station in British India, 1865-1928 / Arvind Verma; title: The White slave trade and the British Empire / Philippa Levine; title: Book review essay : New directions in the history of crime and the law in early modern England / by Malcolm Gaskill; title: Book reviews.