RT Article
T1 British Jews and the Racialisation of Crime in the Age of Empire
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 47
IS 1
SP 61
OP 79
A1 Knepper, Paul 1964-
LA English
YR 2007
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1639314172
AB In the decades before the First World War (1880-1914), as thousands of Jews from Russia and Poland crowded into London's East End, journalists, politicians, and anti-immigrant agitators introduced a vocabulary blending racial identity and criminality. Jewish criminality', embodied in the Jewish prostitute and trafficker, represented a category in the making'. Looking back at this period not only affords an understanding of an early episode of the racialisation of crime, but insight into the response of a racialised population. The London-based Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women (JAPGW), founded in 1885 by members of Anglo-Jewry's leading families, carried out an extensive anti-trafficking campaign. To understand why they chose to promote public awareness of Jewish involvement in the international sex trade despite the uses to which their efforts would be put by anti-Semites, it is necessary to see their outlook against the historical period in which they lived. The JAPGW countered the racialisation of crime using a conceptual vocabulary common to the era; their outlook reflected ethno-religious commitment, Victorian social convention, and faith in social science knowledge
K1 Juden
K1 Kriminalität
K1 Großbritannien
K1 Geschichte
K1 Diskriminierung
K1 Strafjustiz
K1 Prostitution
K1 Rasse
DO 10.1093/bjc/azl027