Gender and crime in modern Europe
By: [edited by] Margaret L. Arnot and Cornelie Usborne.
Contributors: Arnot, Margaret L.; Usborne, Cornelie, 1942-
Series: Women's and gender history
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Crime -- Europe -- Sex differences.; Female offenders -- Europe.; Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why gender and crime? : aspects of an international debate / Margaret L. Arnot and Cornelie Usborne; title: Gender, crime and justice in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England / Peter King; title: The trouble with boys : gender and the "invention" of the juvenile offender in early nineteenth-century Britain / Heather Shore; title: Women and crime in Imperial Russia, 1834-1913 : representing realities / Stephen P. Frank; title: Crime against marriage? : wife-beating, the law and divorce in nineteenth-century Hamburg / Lynn Abrams; title: Workplace appropriation and the gendering of factory "law" : West Yorkshire, 1840-80 / Barry Godfrey; title: Consuming desires : prostitutes and "customers" at the margins of crime and perversion in France and Britain, c. 1836-85 / Bertrand Taithe; title: Male crime in nineteenth-century Germany : duelling / Ute Frevert; title: Dutch difference? : the prosecution of unlicensed midwives in the late nineteenth-century Netherlands / Willem de Blécourt; title: "Stories more terrifying than the truth itself" : narratives of female criminality in fin de siècle Paris / Ann-Louise Shapiro; title: The child's word in court : cases of sexual abuse in London, 1870-1914 / Louise Jackson; title: Women's crimes, state crimes : abortion in Nazi Germany / Gabriele Czarnowski; title: Gender norms in the Sicilian Mafia, 1945-86 / Valeria Pizzini-Gambetta.