Women and Crime in Early Modern Holland

Legal History

Women and Crime in Early Modern Holland

By Manon van der Heijden
Brill Academic Publishers August 2016

Specifications

ISBN-13
9789004314115
Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Publication
August 2016
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
Netherlands ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Crime is men’s business, isn’t it? Women are responsible for 10 percent of crime in Europe. Yet, if we look at the Dutch Republic in the early modern period, we find that in the towns of Holland women played a much larger role in crime. In a number of early modern towns about half of the criminals convicted in court were women. These women were in vulnerable positions and thus more likely to become involved in crime. They also had a relatively independent status and led remarkably public lives. Manon van der Heijden convincingly shows that it is the very combination of women’s vulnerability and independence that accounts for the high female crime rates in Holland between 1600 and 1800.

Table of Contents

List of graphs, tables and illustrations
Foreword

1. Research on Criminal Women in Holland from 1550 to 1800
2. Crime and Punishment
3. Infanticide
4. Women and Petty Theft
5. Aggressive Women in the Neighborhood
6. Promiscuous Women
7. Against Authority
8. Victim or Perpetrator?

Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
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