Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt Am Main
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
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2019.
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| Series: | Crime and City in History Ser.
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Table of Contents:
- 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