Crime is men’s business, isn’t it? Women are responsible for 10 percent of crime in Europe. Yet, if we look at the Dutch Republic in the early modern period

This book charts the lives of (suspected) thieves, illegitimate mothers and vagrants in early modern Frankfurt. The book highlights the gender differences in re

In the early modern period women played a prominent role in crime. At times they even made up half of all defendants. Female criminality was a typically urban p

Places female criminality within its everyday context, bringing together the most current research on crime and gender.

Female protagonists are commonly overlooked in the history of crime; especially in early modern Italy, where women’s scope of action is often portrayed as hea