Crime, gender, and sexuality in criminal prosecutions / edited by Louis A. Knafla.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knafla, Louis A., 1935-

Series:

Criminal justice history ; v. 17.

Criminal justice history, 0194-0953 ; v. 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--Sex differences--History.

Crime.

Criminal behavior--History.

Criminal behavior.

Prosecution--History.

Prosecution.

Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration--History.

Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Knafla and his contributors explore the common problems and issues that emerge from the study of class and gender in criminal prosecutions, ranging from late medieval Europe to the early 20th century. The chapters demonstrate that conceptions of crime and criminal behavior are influenced decisively by the roles of class, gender, and later race as societies evolve in search of continuity and conformity. The seven chapters in this volume, together with a major book review essay and critical reviews of sixteen major works in the area, reinforce the series as a major forum for exploring new directions in criminal justice research as it relates to issues and problems of class, gender, and race in their historical, criminological, legal, and social aspects. The chapters explore common themes and issues that emerge from the study of class and gender through policing and criminal prosecutions in the local community to growing attempts of the new nation state to gain control of the prosecutorial system. Trevor Dean and Lee Beier examine prosecutorial energy in local communities of 15th and 16th century Europe, and see instruments of peace (agreement) and war (prosecution and conviction) as worthy institutions of social control. Andrea Knox studies the prosecution of Irish women, finding that they were prominent as perpetrators of crime as well as victims. Antony Simpson shows how sexual indiscretions developed the law of blackmail in the 18th century, influencing subtle changes in gender roles. David Englander's study of Henry Mayhew reinterprets the role of class in the criminal prosecutions of the 19th century, while Arvind Verma and Philippa Levine extend the roles of class and gender that had been developed in the criminal justice system into the imperial colonies of south-east and east Asia in the 19th and early 20th centuries. An important resource for scholars, students, and researchers involved with legal, political, social, and women's history, criminal justice studies, sociology and criminology, and criminal law.

Contents:

Violence, vendetta, and peacemaking in late medieval Bologna / Trevor Dean

Female criminality and subversion in early modern Ireland / Andrea Knox

Foucault 'Redux'? : the roles of humanism, protestantism, and an urban elite in creating the London Bridewell, 1500-1560 / Lee Beier

Blackmail as a crime of sexual indiscretion in eighteenth-century England / Antony Simpson

Henry Mayhew and the criminal classes of Victorian England : the case reopened / David Englander

Consolidation of the Raj : notes from a police station in British India, 1865-1928 / Arvind Verma

The White slave trade and the British Empire / Philippa Levine

Book review essay : New directions in the history of crime and the law in early modern England / by Malcolm Gaskill

Book reviews.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400633768

9786610469093

9781280469091

1280469099

9780313016363

0313016364

OCLC:

232190013