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Record Nr.

UNINA9910558097303321

Autore

Kamp Jeannette

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brill, 2019

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

©2020

ISBN

90-04-38844-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Crime and city in history ; ; 3

Disciplina

364.3/7094341640903

Soggetti

Female offenders - Germany - Frankfurt am Main - History

Crime - Germany - Frankfurt am Main - History

Social control - Germany - Frankfurt am Main - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.