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).

"Jeannette Kamp offers a well-designed, deeply researched, and carefully nuanced study that highlights the gendered nature of early modern crime". Jesse Spohnholz, in Washington State University doi:10.1017/rqx.2021.149 "Auf der Basis einer hervorragenden Kenntnis der internationalen Forschungsdiskussion wie der spezifischeren stadtgeschichtlichen Literatur präsentiert Jeannette Kamp ein überzeugendes Forschungsdesign, das etablierte Konzepte und Methoden der historischen Kriminalitäts- und Genderforschung nutzt: Kriminalität wird als Ergebnis sozioökonomischer Faktoren, Normen, Diskurse und konkreter Zuschreibungsprozesse konzipiert und die korrespondierenden gender patterns herausgearbeitet."---- Karl Härter, in: Zeitschrift des Max-Planck-Instituts für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie Rg 30 (2022): pp.268-270

• AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations1 Introduction 1 Forgotten Women: Putting Gender in Histories of Crime2 Crime and Social Control3 Crime and the City 4 History of Crime in Early Modern Frankfurt5 Composition of the Book6 Setting the Scene: Frankfurt am Main as a Case Study for Female Crime7 Sources2 A Multi-Layered Legal System: Criminal Justice in Early Modern Frankfurt1 The Administration of Justice in a Multifaceted Legal Landscape2 Investigation of Criminal Offences: about the Formation of the Verhöramt3 Prosecuted Crimes and Boundaries of Jurisdiction4 Criminal Procedures5 Policing and Social Control6 Conclusion3 Gender and Recorded Crime: Long-Term Patterns and Developments1 Women in Recorded Crime2 Urbanisation and Female Offending3 Gendered Patterns of Crime4 Fluctuations over Time5 Women Facing Crisis6 Conclusion4 Transcending Dichotomies: Gender, Property Offending and the ‘Open House’1 Female Property Offending and the Public/Private Dichotomy2 Gendered Patterns of Property Crimes 3 Social Profile of Property Offenders4 Locations of Theft: Transcending the Private and the Public4.1 Theft from Dwelling Houses4.2 Other Locations5 Between Necessity and Fashion6 Distributing of Stolen Goods7 Domestic Theft8 Criminal Prosecution and Household Control9 Conclusion5 Between Control and Agency? The Prosecution of Sexual Offences1 Disciplining or Assisting? Women and the Regulation of Morals2 Legal Developments3 Prosecuting Sexual Offences4 Sin versus Crime or Institutional Differentiation?5 Changes in Time: from Adultery to Illegitimacy6 Unwed Mothers before the Court7 Between Plaintiff and Defendant: Women and the Prosecution of Illegitimacy8 Infanticide, Abortion and Child Abandonment9 Conclusion6 Transgressing Social Order: Mobile Men and Women1 Migration and the Importance of Settledness in Frankfurt2 Vagrancy Laws and the Labelling of Unwanted Mobility3 Controlling Male and Female Mobility: Diverging Approaches4 Mobility as a Crime before the Verhöramt5 Precarious Independence6 The Malefizbuch, an Example of Gendered Framing of Unwanted Mobility7 Penal Exclusion and the Importance of Banishment in Early Modern Criminal Justice8 The Practice of Returning— a Reflection of Female Settledness?9 Conclusion7 Conclusions1 The Case of Frankfurt and the European Pattern of Female Crime2 Impact of Authoritative Social Control Structures3 Agency of Women4 Future PerspectivesAppendixSourcesBibliographyIndex