Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt Am Main
Material type: TextSeries: Crime and City in History SerPublication details: Boston : BRILL, 2019.Description: 1 online resource (347 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9004388443
- 9789004388444
- Female offenders -- Germany -- Frankfurt am Main -- History
- Crime -- Germany -- Frankfurt am Main -- History
- Social control -- Germany -- Frankfurt am Main -- History
- Criminelles -- Allemagne -- Francfort-sur-le-Main -- Histoire
- Contrôle social -- Allemagne -- Francfort-sur-le-Main -- Histoire
- HISTORY / Europe / General
- Crime
- Female offenders
- Social control
- Germany -- Frankfurt am Main
- HV6046 .K367 2020
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Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 Forgotten Women: Putting Gender in Histories of Crime -- 2 Crime and Social Control -- 3 Crime and the City -- 4 History of Crime in Early Modern Frankfurt -- 5 Composition of the Book -- 6 Setting the Scene: Frankfurt am Main as a Case Study for Female Crime -- 7 Sources -- Chapter 2 A Multi-Layered Legal System: Criminal Justice in Early Modern Frankfurt -- 1 The Administration of Justice in a Multifaceted Legal Landscape
2 Investigation of Criminal Offences: about the Formation of the Verhöramt -- 3 Prosecuted Crimes and Boundaries of Jurisdiction -- 4 Criminal Procedures -- 5 Policing and Social Control -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Gender and Recorded Crime: Long-Term Patterns and Developments -- 1 Women in Recorded Crime -- 2 Urbanisation and Female Offending -- 3 Gendered Patterns of Crime -- 4 Fluctuations over Time -- 5 Women Facing Crisis -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Transcending Dichotomies: Gender, Property Offending and the 'Open House' -- 1 Female Property Offending and the Public/Private Dichotomy
2 Gendered Patterns of Property Crimes -- 3 Social Profile of Property Offenders -- 4 Locations of Theft: Transcending the Private and the Public -- 4.1 Theft from Dwelling Houses -- 4.2 Other Locations -- 5 Between Necessity and Fashion -- 6 Distributing of Stolen Goods -- 7 Domestic Theft -- 8 Criminal Prosecution and Household Control -- 9 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Between Control and Agency? The Prosecution of Sexual Offences -- 1 Disciplining or Assisting? Women and the Regulation of Morals -- 2 Legal Developments -- 3 Prosecuting Sexual Offences
4 Sin versus Crime or Institutional Differentiation? -- 5 Changes in Time: from Adultery to Illegitimacy -- 6 Unwed Mothers before the Court -- 7 Between Plaintiff and Defendant: Women and the Prosecution of Illegitimacy -- 8 Infanticide, Abortion and Child Abandonment -- 9 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Transgressing Social Order: Mobile Men and Women -- 1 Migration and the Importance of Settledness in Frankfurt -- 2 Vagrancy Laws and the Labelling of Unwanted Mobility -- 3 Controlling Male and Female Mobility: Diverging Approaches -- 4 Mobility as a Crime before the Verhöramt
5 Precarious Independence -- 6 The Malefizbuch, an Example of Gendered Framing of Unwanted Mobility -- 7 Penal Exclusion and the Importance of Banishment in Early Modern Criminal Justice -- 8 The Practice of Returning-a Reflection of Female Settledness? -- 9 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Conclusions -- 1 The Case of Frankfurt and the European Pattern of Female Crime -- 2 Impact of Authoritative Social Control Structures -- 3 Agency of Women -- 4 Future Perspectives -- Appendix -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Sources -- Archival Sources -- Printed Sources -- Bibliography -- Index
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