Weak Bodies ? Prostitutes and the Role of Gender in the Criminological Writings of 19th-century German Detectives and Magistrates
The change in the representation of deviance, which took place during the second half of the 19th century, is analysed in the writings of two groups of authors from German-speaking countries : criminalists (police experts and detectives) and criminologists (scholars in the fields of law, medicine an...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Sprog: | Anglais |
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | The change in the representation of deviance, which took place during the second half of the 19th century, is analysed in the writings of two groups of authors from German-speaking countries : criminalists (police experts and detectives) and criminologists (scholars in the fields of law, medicine and anthropology). My analysis of the representation of prostitutes reconstructs two master-narratives, which structured the reflection and writing on crime and deviance. Each of these created specific fears and anxieties related to prostitutes and affected the ways institutional responses to these fears were organized. I argue that the analysis of these narratives as part of a discursive practice provides a better understanding of the ways in which experts as well as lay people approached social problems, from both an intellectual and an institutional standpoint. |
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