Crime, gender and social control in early modern Frankfurt am Main / Jeannette Kamp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kamp, Jeannette, author.

Series:

Crime and city in history ; 3.

Crime and city in history ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Female offenders--Germany--Frankfurt am Main--History.

Female offenders.

Crime--Germany--Frankfurt am Main--History.

Crime.

Social control--Germany--Frankfurt am Main--History.

Social control.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2019

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book charts the lives of (suspected) thieves, illegitimate mothers and vagrants in early modern Frankfurt. The book highlights the gender differences in recorded criminality and the way that they were shaped by the local context. Women played a prominent role in recorded crime in this period, and could even make up half of all defendants in specific European cities. At the same time, there were also large regional differences. Women’s crime patterns in Frankfurt were both similar and different to those of other cities. Informal control within the household played a significant role and influenced the prosecution patterns of authorities. This impacted men and women differently, and created clear distinctions within the system between settled locals and unsettled migrants.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International CC BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004388444

9004388443

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004388444 DOI

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access