Marion Pluskota

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer at Leiden University

This response to Marjolein ’t Hart’s Oorlog en ongelijkheid reconsiders her argument about the indirect benefits of war for women by focusing specifically on those engaged in sex work. It argues that although urban sex workers initially profited from the booming wartime economy, the subsequent professionalization of the military and the rise of mor...

This article questions the impact of urbanization on crime rates by studying Amsterdam migrants in front of the correctional court between 1850 and 1905 and connecting the historiography on crime and migration. The data shows no clear link between urbanization and a rise in crime, but it does reveal the role of external factors in the prosecution o...

This special issue aims to shed light on a still understudied subject: how migrants were treated by the courts when they committed a crime. Historians of crime and migration, social scientists, and criminologists have produced essential research on the criminalization of migration over the centuries, and on how the mobility of the poorest became a...

This article builds on recent calls in urban and gender history for a better understanding of the interaction between gender and the urban environment. Its focus is on male and female offending behaviours and their relation to the urban space, specifically the spaces shared by women and men: the home, the street outside of their house, and the main...

History has shown that primitive societies, with their well-developed value and norm systems, were self-governing. Needs of the people led to the development of mechanisms for survival. As primitive societies became more complex, a need arose for knowledge of the nature and structure of the communities in which they lived. Moral laws and rules, whi...

How did the abolition of slavery influence the relations between urban centres and rural areas? How did “new” French citizens experience access to the urban environment? Based on the archives of the correctional courts, this article focuses on how race and citizenship determined the accessibility of French colonial urban spaces and institutions aft...

De Nederlandse rechtbankarchieven uit de negentiende eeuw herbergen een schat aan informatie over allerhande strafbare gedragingen en de personen die deze pleegden. Echter, in vergelijking met andere tijdvakken heeft de negentiende-eeuwse criminaliteit in Nederland op betrekkelijk weinig aandacht van historici mogen rekenen en met name de archieven...

This introduction deals with the historiography on women’s participation in crime in various regions in Europe in the early modern and modern period. It introduces the chapters in this volume and places them in the framework of three topics around which the debates about crime and gender have centered over the past decades: violence, prosecution an...

In the last third of the eighteenth-century, Bristol and Nantes were two of the most active commercial ports of England and France, despite a slowdown of their economy. Their economies were based primarily on the maritime trade, but they developed alongside Atlantic industries that attracted many migrants, both male and female, from the surrounding...

This essay introduces the special section "Crime and Gender." The first part explains the disregard for women in crime history. The second part summarizes the state of research. The final part describes the aim and introduces the contributions to this special section. "Why gender and crime?" asked Margaret L. Arnot and Cornelie Usborne in the intro...

This article challenges the common assumption that gender had a strong impact on prosecution patterns in correctional courts. Whereas this theory has been proven accurate in a common law setting and when juries were involved, its relevance in a penal code system, and specifically in correctional courts, still needs to be proved. From the judicial a...

This article questions the relevance of the theory of the criminalization of men in nineteenth-century Holland compared to the situation in England. Works on English criminality show a clear gender bias in relation to the prosecution and punishment of violence in the nineteenth century but we argue that this ‘criminalization of men’ did not occur i...

This article focuses on a specific aspect of the history of crime: co-offending (offending with one or more accomplices) in a family setting at the end of the nineteenth century. The aims of this article are to analyze how genders interacted in a criminal setting and to show a possible bias in the court's decision to prosecute ‘criminal families’,...

Since the first outcries from feminist historians in the early 1970s against the absence of women as historical subjects, tangible progress has been made towards the inclusion of both female and male identities and experiences in historical research. The definition of gender as a 'category of analysis' brought about a small revolution in historical...

JuliaLaite. Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens. Commercial Sex in London, 1885–1960. [Genders and Sexuality in History.] Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [etc.]2012. 299 pp. Maps. £55.00. - Volume 58 Issue 3 - Marion Pluskota

This article examines the origins of a red-light district in a French provincial city before the implementation of official regulation. It aims at redefining the role of prostitutes, police and society in the development of ‘reserved districts’. Based on the study of judicial archives over a 60-year period, the mapping of the spatial distribution o...

This paper presents a review of the historiography on gender and crime in Europe in the period between 1600 and 1800, starting from Beattie's seminal article highlighting the absence of women in the history of crime, to the most recent works on the process of gendering crime and on revaluating men's participation in ‘female crimes'. It discusses...

Judith R.Walkowitz, Nights Out. Life in Cosmopolitan London. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. xiv + 414pp. Colour plates, figures, maps, bibliography. £25.00. - Volume 39 Issue 4 - Marion Pluskota