{"product_id":"deviant-women-female-crime-and-criminology-in-revolutionary-russia-1880-1930-hardback-9780875804064","title":"Deviant Women; Female Crime and Criminology in Revolutionary Russia, 1880–1930 (Hardback) 9780875804064","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDeviant Women\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFemale Crime and Criminology in Revolutionary Russia, 1880–1930\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSharon Kowalsky (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780875804064\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 October 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e330 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA very solid and scrupulously scholarly contribution to the new critical assessments of science and its role in shaping the Bolshevik vision for the world's first socialist society. It is timely and uses the newly available sources for the study of Soviet history.\u003c\/p\u003e - Dan Healey, Swansea University, author of \u003ci\u003eBolshevik Sexual Forensics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter seizing power in 1917, the Bolsheviks initiated reforms aimed at abolishing the old way of life in Russia. A new Family Code liberalized marriage procedures, promoted communal living arrangements, and abolished the concept of illegitimacy. Other decrees legalized abortion, deregulated prostitution, and emancipated women. The Bolsheviks' Marxist ideology that guided these reforms was also behind the assertion that crime, an artifact of bourgeois capitalist exploitation, would disappear under socialism. As crime persisted, Soviet criminologists—a cohort of jurists, doctors, sociologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, statisticians, and forensic experts—were charged with examining its causes and motives to determine the most effective methods to eliminate it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe problem of female crime occupied a prominent position in criminologists' studies. In explaining \"traditional\" female crimes of the domestic sphere—infanticide, spouse murder, and petty theft, among others—criminologists pointed to the offenders' backwardness and ignorance, material circumstances, and even biology. Kowalsky examines the position of women in early Soviet society through the lens of deviance, exploring how Soviet criminologists understood female crime and how their attitudes helped shape the development of Soviet social and behavioral norms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeviant Women\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the emergence of criminology in early Soviet Russia, tracing the development of principles and theories—particularly that of female deviance—and highlighting the ways in which criminologists were able to conduct innovative social science research under the constraints of Bolshevik ideology. Kowalsky then focuses on the analyses of female crime and criminologists' attitudes concerning sexuality, geography, and class. Concluding with a close study of infanticide, the most \"typical\" crime committed by women, Kowalsky discusses the social attitudes that were revealed in the professional discussion of this crime. Historians of modern Russia and the USSR, scholars of gender studies, and those studying criminology will be fascinated by this original study.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Development of Criminology \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Anthropology, Sociology, and Female Crime: The Origins of Criminology in Russia \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Professionals, Social Science, and the State: The Organization of Soviet Criminology \u003cbr\u003e Part II. Analyzing Female Crime \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The WomanÆs Sphere: The Role of Sexuality in Female Deviance \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Geography of Crime: City, Countryside, and Trends in Female Criminality \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. A Remnant of the Old Way of Life: Infanticide in Theory and Practice \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Fate of Soviet Criminology \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52584753529112,"sku":"9780875804064","price":30.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/deviant-women-female-crime-and-criminology-in-revolutionary-russia-1880-1930-hardback-9780875804064","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}