Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main

Kamp, Jeannette

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“…47 Similarly, Jeannette Kamp has pointed out that in the criminal investigation records of early modern Frankfurt only few domestic cases were prosecuted formally, demonstrating instead how women could make use of systems of strong informal control within the household to obtain some form of justice informally. 48 Looking more specifically at the position of single migrant women in the Dutch Republic, Manon van der Heijden and Ariadne Schmidt have illuminated the various options for single women to get justice, including: Protestant consistories, civil lawsuits, paternity action, and the appeal for the power to legally represent absent husbands (such as those sailing under the Dutch East India Company). 49 Across these studies, the high rates of female crime have been framed in terms of whether these suggest that women acted either out of a state of vulnerability, or out of independence that came from having more opportunities for action than is often assumed.…”

Section: Bottom-up Regulation: the Uses Of Justice And Agency In The ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Judging Migrants

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Nicolaas

2023

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The Dutch Golden Age is often referred to as a prime example of Dutch tolerance with regard to the ‘open’ policies towards migration and the harmonious co-existence of migrants with their local neighbours. Considering that, before 1800, migrants made up approximately 25-60 percent of the urban communities of the early modern Dutch Republic, and that there is evidence of the rise of many stereotypes about these migrants, this rosy picture of Dutch tolerance is drawn into question. How exactly this tension between tolerance and the persistence of these stereotypes played out in the daily realities of migrants living in early modern Dutch cities remains an understudied area of research. This article identifies the overlaps between existing research in the fields of migration history, urban history and social legal history, as well as the areas in which these approaches can further supplement each other. It does so in order to plead the case for the benefits of an integrated history of crime and migration in uncovering new evidence, themes and patterns in the social history of (urban) migration in the early modern Dutch Republic.

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Section: Bottom-up Regulation: the Uses Of Justice And Agency In The ...mentioning

confidence: 99%