RT Book
T1 Everyday crime, criminal justice and gender in early modern Bologna
T2 Crime and city in history
JF Crime and city in history
A1 Muurling, Sanne 1987-
LA English
PP Leiden Boston
PB Brill
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1736758365
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV6995.B64
SN 9789004440586
K1 Geschichte 1450-1650
K1 Crime : Italy : Bologna : History
K1 Female offenders : Italy : Bologna : History
K1 Criminal justice, Administration of : Italy : Bologna : History
K1 Kriminalität
K1 Straftat
K1 Neuzeit
K1 Bologna