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Cover illustration: Fish market on the Römer hill. Painting by Christian Georg Schütz der Ältere, 1754. The merchandise and market stalls are grouped around the ‘fountain of justice’ that is ornated by lady Justitia pointing to the town hall where the court and criminal investigation office resided. Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main.
Maps by UvA-Kaartenmakers, Castricum.
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Names: Kamp, Jeannette, author.
Title: Crime, gender and social control in early modern Frankfurt am Main / Jeannette Kamp.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] | Series: Crime and city in history ; 3 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “In 2015 the Spiegel Online- one of the most widely read German- language news websites- published a satirical article under the headline: ‘Stimulating women’s crime’. According to the article, discrimination against women was nowhere more visible than in the national criminal statistics, where women were consistently underrepresented as offenders”– Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019040454 | ISBN 9789004388437 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004388444 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Female offenders–Germany–Frankfurt am Main–History. | Crime–Germany–Frankfurt am Main–History. | Social control–Germany– Frankfurt am Main–History.
Classification: LCC HV6046 .K36 2019 | DDC 364.3/7094341640903–dc23
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ISSN 2468-2268
ISBN 978-90-04-38843-7 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-38844-4 (e-book)
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