Crime, gender, and social order in early modern England / Garthine Walker.
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TextSeries: Cambridge studies in early modern British historyPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 310 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 0511065736
- 9780511065736
- 0511116586
- 9780511116582
- 0511067860
- 9780511067860
- 9780511496110
- 0511496117
- 9786610160808
- 6610160805
- Female offenders -- Great Britain -- History
- Crime -- Great Britain -- History
- Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain -- History
- Criminelles -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
- Criminalité -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
- Femmes -- Droit -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology
- Crime
- Female offenders
- Women -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Great Britain
- Vrouwen
- Sekserol
- Criminaliteit
- Wetgeving
- Kriminalität
- Geschlechterrolle
- Cheshire
- 364.3/74 22
- HV6046 .W26 2003eb
- 15.70
- NT 6600
- NW 2350
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; FIGURES AND TABLES; PREFACE; NOTE ON QUOTATIONS AND DATES; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 Introduction; 2 Men's non-lethal violence; 3 Voices of feminine violence; 4 Homicide, gender and justice; 5 Theft and related offences; 6 Authority, agency and law; 7 Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
This is the first study of how masculinity and femininity informed criminal behaviour and the treatment of men and women before the courts of early modern England. It shows that women were not treated leniently by the courts, and casts fresh light on the complexities of everyday life.
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