Future Research on Women and Crime

In the last few decades criminologists and crime historians have made important steps in the understanding of women and crime in the past. First, scholars have gathered data on women’s contribution to crime in various parts in Europe and during different time periods. Such examinations revealed tha...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/chs,
Autor Principal: van der Heijden, Manon
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado: Crime, Histoire & Sociétés 2018
Acceso en liña:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:In the last few decades criminologists and crime historians have made important steps in the understanding of women and crime in the past. First, scholars have gathered data on women’s contribution to crime in various parts in Europe and during different time periods. Such examinations revealed that women’s involvement in crime was in various parts in Europe much higher in the period before ca. 1900 than in the modern period. There were also significant differences between towns and the coun...