Prosecuting Women
A Comparative Perspective on Crime and Gender Before the Dutch Criminal Courts, C. 1600-1810
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Word Count
69,000 words, Guess
Page Count
276 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28093631M
- ISBN-139789004424906
- OCLC Control Number1127662599
- Library of Congress Control Number2020009812
Classifications
- LCCHV7007.S36 2020
Description
"In the early modern period women played a prominent role in crime. At times they even made up half of all defendants. Female criminality was a typically urban phenomenon. Why do we find so many women before the Dutch criminal courts? In Prosecuting Women Ariadne Schmidt analyses the relation between female crime and the urban context by comparing prosecution patterns in various Dutch cities. Prosecuting Women looks beyond the bare figures, examines the personal circumstances of criminal women and shows how women's illegal activities were linked to the socio-economic context of the locality and varied over time. The local interplay between crime and the responses of the authorities gave every city a specific dynamic in its pattern of prosecuted crime"--
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