Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main

Jeannette Kamp, Ph.D. (1986), is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford. She has previously published an edited volume with Matthias van Rossum Desertion in the Early Modern World (2016).

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1 Introduction
 1 Forgotten Women: Putting Gender in Histories of Crime
 2 Crime and Social Control
 3 Crime and the City
 4 History of Crime in Early Modern Frankfurt
 5 Composition of the Book
 6 Setting the Scene: Frankfurt am Main as a Case Study for Female Crime
 7 Sources
2 A Multi-Layered Legal System: Criminal Justice in Early Modern Frankfurt
 1 The Administration of Justice in a Multifaceted Legal Landscape
 2 Investigation of Criminal Offences: about the Formation of the Verhöramt
 3 Prosecuted Crimes and Boundaries of Jurisdiction
 4 Criminal Procedures
 5 Policing and Social Control
 6 Conclusion
3 Gender and Recorded Crime: Long-Term Patterns and Developments
 1 Women in Recorded Crime
 2 Urbanisation and Female Offending
 3 Gendered Patterns of Crime
 4 Fluctuations over Time
 5 Women Facing Crisis
 6 Conclusion
4 Transcending Dichotomies: Gender, Property Offending and the ‘Open House’
 1 Female Property Offending and the Public/Private Dichotomy
 2 Gendered Patterns of Property Crimes
 3 Social Profile of Property Offenders
 4 Locations of Theft: Transcending the Private and the Public
  4.1 Theft from Dwelling Houses
  4.2 Other Locations
 5 Between Necessity and Fashion
 6 Distributing of Stolen Goods
 7 Domestic Theft
 8 Criminal Prosecution and Household Control
 9 Conclusion
5 Between Control and Agency? The Prosecution of Sexual Offences
 1 Disciplining or Assisting? Women and the Regulation of Morals
 2 Legal Developments
 3 Prosecuting Sexual Offences
 4 Sin versus Crime or Institutional Differentiation?
 5 Changes in Time: from Adultery to Illegitimacy
 6 Unwed Mothers before the Court
 7 Between Plaintiff and Defendant: Women and the Prosecution of Illegitimacy
 8 Infanticide, Abortion and Child Abandonment
 9 Conclusion
6 Transgressing Social Order: Mobile Men and Women
 1 Migration and the Importance of Settledness in Frankfurt
 2 Vagrancy Laws and the Labelling of Unwanted Mobility
 3 Controlling Male and Female Mobility: Diverging Approaches
 4 Mobility as a Crime before the Verhöramt
 5 Precarious Independence
 6 The Malefizbuch, an Example of Gendered Framing of Unwanted Mobility
 7 Penal Exclusion and the Importance of Banishment in Early Modern Criminal Justice
 8 The Practice of Returning— a Reflection of Female Settledness?
 9 Conclusion
7 Conclusions
 1 The Case of Frankfurt and the European Pattern of Female Crime
 2 Impact of Authoritative Social Control Structures
 3 Agency of Women
 4 Future Perspectives

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