Foreword, Acknowledgements, Notes on contributors, 1. Why gender and crime? Aspects of an international debate, 2. Gender, crime and justice in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, 3. The trouble with boys: gender and the "invention" of the juvenile offender in early nineteenth-century Britain, 4. Women and crime in Imperial Russia, 1834-1913: representing realities, 5. Crime against marriage? Wife-beating, the law and divorce in nineteenth-century Hamburg, 6. Workplace appropriation and the gendering of factory "law": West Yorkshire, 1840-80, 7. Consuming desires: prostitutes and "customers" at the margins of crime and perversion in France and Britain, c. 1836-85, 8. Male crime in nineteenth-century Germany: duelling, 9. Dutch difference? The prosecution of unlicensed midwives in the late nineteenth-century Netherlands, 10. "Stories more terrifying than the truth itself": narratives of female criminality in fin de siècle Paris, 11. The child's word in court: cases of sexual abuse in London, 1870-1914, 12. Women's crimes, state crimes: abortion in Nazi Germany, 13. Gender norms in the Sicilian Mafia, 1945-86, Index