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Record Nr.

UNINA9910437649003321

Autore

Muurling Sanne <1987->

Titolo

Everyday crime, criminal justice and gender in early modern Bologna / / by Sanne Muurling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brill, 2021

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

9789004440593

9004440593

9789004440586

9004440585

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Crime and city in history ; ; volume 5

Disciplina

364.374094541109041

Soggetti

Crime - Italy - Bologna - History

Female offenders - Italy - Bologna - History

Criminal justice, Administration of - Italy - Bolognas - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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