Gender and crime in modern Europe /
Contributor(s): Arnot, Margaret L
| Usborne, Cornelie
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Series: Women's and gender history.Publisher: London : UCL Press, c1999Description: 288 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1857287452 (hard); 9781857287455:; 9781857287455 (hard); 1857287460 (pbk.); 9781857287462 (pbk.).Subject(s): Crime -- Sex differences -- Europe | Crime -- Europe -- Sex differences | Crime -- Europe -- History | Female offenders -- Europe -- History | Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Europe -- HistoryDDC classification: 364.3094 Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why gender and crime? : aspects of an international debate / Margaret L. Arnot and Cornelie Usborne -- Gender, crime and justice in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England / Peter King -- The trouble with boys : gender and the "invention" of the juvenile offender in early nineteenth-century Britain / Heather Shore -- Women and crime in Imperial Russia, 1834-1913 : representing realities / Stephen P. Frank -- Crime against marriage? : wife-beating, the law and divorce in nineteenth-century Hamburg / Lynn Abrams -- Workplace appropriation and the gendering of factory "law" : West Yorkshire, 1840-80 / Barry Godfrey -- Consuming desires : prostitutes and "customers" at the margins of crime and perversion in France and Britain, c. 1836-85 / Bertrand Taithe -- Male crime in nineteenth-century Germany : duelling / Ute Frevert -- Dutch difference? : the prosecution of unlicensed midwives in the late nineteenth-century Netherlands / Willem de Blécourt -- "Stories more terrifying than the truth itself" : narratives of female criminality in fin de siècle Paris / Ann-Louise Shapiro -- The child's word in court : cases of sexual abuse in London, 1870-1914 / Louise Jackson -- Women's crimes, state crimes : abortion in Nazi Germany / Gabriele Czarnowski -- Gender norms in the Sicilian Mafia, 1945-86 / Valeria Pizzini-Gambetta.
This volume explores the construction of gender norms and examines how they were reflected and reinforced by legal institutional practices in modern Europe.