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Policing Women examines for the first time the changing historical
landscape of women’s experiences of their contact with the
official state police between 1800 to 1950, in the Western world.
Drawing on and going beyond existing knowledge about policing
practices, the volume discusses how women encountered the official
police, how they experienced that contact, and the outcomes of that
contact in the modern Western world. In so doing, it is an original
and much needed addition to the literature around changes in
policing, women’s experiences of the criminal justice system, and
women’s experiences of control and regulation. The chapters
uncover such experiences in a geographically spread range of
countries across Europe, US, Canada and Australia. Importantly the
collection focuses upon a crucial epoch in the history of policing,
a 150-year period when policing was rapidly changing and being
increasingly placed on a formal level. Bringing together scholarly
work from expert contributors, this unique volume draws to the fore
women's experiences of policing. It will be of great use to
students on undergraduate and postgraduate criminology and history
courses, working on the history of crime, historical criminology,
the history of criminal justice, and women’s history.
Policing Women examines for the first time the changing historical
landscape of women’s experiences of their contact with the
official state police between 1800 to 1950, in the Western world.
Drawing on and going beyond existing knowledge about policing
practices, the volume discusses how women encountered the official
police, how they experienced that contact, and the outcomes of that
contact in the modern Western world. In so doing, it is an original
and much needed addition to the literature around changes in
policing, women’s experiences of the criminal justice system, and
women’s experiences of control and regulation. The chapters
uncover such experiences in a geographically spread range of
countries across Europe, US, Canada and Australia. Importantly the
collection focuses upon a crucial epoch in the history of policing,
a 150-year period when policing was rapidly changing and being
increasingly placed on a formal level. Bringing together scholarly
work from expert contributors, this unique volume draws to the fore
women's experiences of policing. It will be of great use to
students on undergraduate and postgraduate criminology and history
courses, working on the history of crime, historical criminology,
the history of criminal justice, and women’s history.
In the last third of the eighteenth-century, Bristol and Nantes
were two of the most active commercial ports of England and France,
despite a slowdown of their economy. Their economies were based
primarily on the maritime trade, but they developed alongside
Atlantic industries that attracted many migrants, both male and
female, from the surrounding countryside and from abroad. The busy
urban environment, the high number of sailors and single men
migrating to the port, and the decline of female house based
proto-industries, were factors encouraging the development of
prostitution. How prostitution is perceived in the context of
social control and urban change is key to understanding the
evolving attitudes to gender and sexuality in the eighteenth
century. In this comparative study, Marion Pluskota offers an
analysis of the lives of prostitutes that looks beyond a purely
criminal perspective, and which encompasses their roles within
their families, relationships and social networks. Using police and
judicial records, she provides a valuable corrective to the narrow
analysis of prostitutes in terms of immorality or deviance. The
unique forms of development and problems faced by port cities in
the early modern period make them particularly interesting subjects
for comparative history. This book is well suited for those who
study social history, gender and women's history.
In the last third of the eighteenth-century, Bristol and Nantes
were two of the most active commercial ports of England and France,
despite a slowdown of their economy. Their economies were based
primarily on the maritime trade, but they developed alongside
Atlantic industries that attracted many migrants, both male and
female, from the surrounding countryside and from abroad. The busy
urban environment, the high number of sailors and single men
migrating to the port, and the decline of female house based
proto-industries, were factors encouraging the development of
prostitution. How prostitution is perceived in the context of
social control and urban change is key to understanding the
evolving attitudes to gender and sexuality in the eighteenth
century. In this comparative study, Marion Pluskota offers an
analysis of the lives of prostitutes that looks beyond a purely
criminal perspective, and which encompasses their roles within
their families, relationships and social networks. Using police and
judicial records, she provides a valuable corrective to the narrow
analysis of prostitutes in terms of immorality or deviance. The
unique forms of development and problems faced by port cities in
the early modern period make them particularly interesting subjects
for comparative history. This book is well suited for those who
study social history, gender and women’s history.
Bringing together the most current research on the relationship
between crime and gender in the West between 1600 and 1914, this
authoritative volume places female criminality within its everyday
context. It reveals how their socio-economic and cultural contexts
provided women with 'agency' against a range of European backdrops,
despite a fundamentally patriarchal criminal justice system, and
includes in-depth analysis of original sources to show how changing
living standards, employment, schooling and welfare arrangements
had a direct impact on the quality of life of working class women,
their risk of becoming involved in crime, and the likelihood of
being prosecuted for it. Rather than treating women's criminality
as always exceptional, this study draws out the similarities
between female and male criminality, demonstrating how an
understanding of specific cultural and socio-economic contexts is
essential to explain female criminality, both why their criminal
patterns changed, and how their crimes were represented by
contemporaries.
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