Everyday Crime, Criminal Justice and Gender in Early Modern Bologna / Sanne Muurling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muurling, Sanne, 1987- author.

Series:

Crime and city in history ; Volume 5.

Crime and City in History Series ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--Italy--Bologna--History.

Crime.

Criminal justice, Administration of--Italy--Bologna.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Female offenders--Italy--Bologna.

Female offenders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 254 pages) : charts, tables; digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2021

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Female protagonists are commonly overlooked in the history of crime; especially in early modern Italy, where women's scope of action is often portrayed as heavily restricted. This book redresses the notion of Italian women's passivity, arguing that women's crimes were far too common to be viewed as an anomaly. Based on over two thousand criminal complaints and investigation dossiers, Sanne Muurling charts the multifaceted impact of gender on patterns of recorded crime in early modern Bologna. While various socioeconomic and legal mechanisms withdrew women from the criminal justice process, the casebooks also reveal that women - as criminal offenders and savvy litigants - had an active hand in keeping the wheels of the court spinning

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Women's roles, institutions, and social control

3. The Torrone and the prosecution of crimes

4.Denunciations and the uses of justice

5. Violence and the politics of everyday life

6. Theft and its prosecution

7. Conclusion

Appendix: Information on samples

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Muurling, Sanne. Everyday crime, criminal justice and gender in early modern Bologna.

ISBN:

9789004440593

9004440593

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access