Prosecuting women : : a comparative perspective on crime and gender before the Dutch criminal courts, c.1600-1810 / / by Ariadne Schmidt.

In the early modern period women played a prominent role in crime. At times they even made up half of all defendants. Female criminality was a typically urban phenomenon. Why do we find so many women before the Dutch criminal courts? In Prosecuting Women Ariadne Schmidt analyses the relation between...

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Superior document:Crime and City in History; 4
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Crime and City in History; 4.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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