Marion Pluskota
Biographic Data
| ID | 193175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marion Pluskota |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marion |
| FAMILY NAME | Pluskota |
| SIGNATURE | PLUSKOTA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0868-0640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sex work and war in the early modern Low Countries
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 moral and legal reforms ultimately undermined these gains. It shows that the economic opportunities dur…
Introduction to the Special Issue Migrants and the Criminal Courts in Western Europe, 1600-1900
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 contentious issue for the local and national authorities
Jos Wassink, Dagelijks leven in ‘ontugt’. Prostitutie in de vestingstad ’s-Hertogenbosch, 1629-1795
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
The Lure of the City: Migration, Crime, and Urbanization in Amsterdam, 1850-1905
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 of specific crimes. The crisis experienced by the urban labour market in the late 1870 and 1880s had …
Gender and the Geography of Crime in Nineteenth-Century Leiden and Amsterdam
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 thoroughfares. The article aims to shed light on common practices and understandings between men an…
Homo sapiens and Criminality
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, which governed primitive communities, were organized around the family and tribal environment. Even in …
Wanbedrijven en overtredingen te Amsterdam en Leiden Een introductie op twee datasets, 1850 - 1905
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 van de lagere rechtbanken, die van arrondissementen en de kantons, zijn weinig onderzocht. De const…
Freedom of Movement, Access to the Urban Centres, and Abolition of Slavery in the French Caribbean
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 after 1848. The abolition of slavery in the French Antilles on 27 April 1848 led to a modification of t…
Prostitution and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Ports
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 countryside and from abroad. The busy urban environment, the high number of sailors and single men …
Introduction to Crime and Gender in History
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.
Petty Criminality, Gender Bias, and Judicial Practice in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Recent studies on gender and crime tend to emphasize the differences in the treatment of men and women by the criminal courts.Historians researching western European criminal justice have proved that in many instances women were treated with more leniency than men.For London, between 1780 and 1820, Peter King has shown that the judges and juries of the Old Bailey were more likely to sentence a male suspect to death than a woman and that acquittal…
Julie Peakman, Peg Plunkett, Memoirs of a Whore
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Criminal families’ and the court: Co-offending in Amsterdam, 1897–1902
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’, either in relation to the people involved or to the environment in which the crime was committed. Th…
Leniency versus Toughening? The Prosecution of Male and Female Violence in 19th Century Holland
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 in Holland between 1750 and 1886. Quantitative and qualitative data from different cities and produce…
Research in urban history: Recent Ph.D. theses on gender and the city, 1550–2000
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 research, especially in social, economic and, more recently, cultural history. Traditional narrativ…
Genesis of a red-light district: Prostitution in Nantes between 1750 and 1810
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 of prostitutes in Nantes reveals the spread of prostitution in most of the city's districts. However,…
Freedom of Movement, Access to the Urban Centres, and Abolition of Slavery in the French Caribbean
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 after 1848. The abolition of slavery in the French Antilles on 27 April 1848 led to a modification of t…
Prostitution and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Ports
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 countryside and from abroad. The busy urban environment, the high number of sailors and single men …
Criminal families’ and the court: Co-offending in Amsterdam, 1897–1902
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’, either in relation to the people involved or to the environment in which the crime was committed. Th…
Leniency versus Toughening? The Prosecution of Male and Female Violence in 19th Century Holland
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 in Holland between 1750 and 1886. Quantitative and qualitative data from different cities and produce…
Genesis of a red-light district: Prostitution in Nantes between 1750 and 1810
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 of prostitutes in Nantes reveals the spread of prostitution in most of the city's districts. However,…
Genesis of a red-light district: Prostitution in Nantes between 1750 and 1810
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 of prostitutes in Nantes reveals the spread of prostitution in most of the city's districts. However,…
Research in urban history: Recent Ph.D. theses on gender and the city, 1550–2000
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 research, especially in social, economic and, more recently, cultural history. Traditional narrativ…
Criminal families’ and the court: Co-offending in Amsterdam, 1897–1902
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’, either in relation to the people involved or to the environment in which the crime was committed. Th…
Leniency versus Toughening? The Prosecution of Male and Female Violence in 19th Century Holland
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 in Holland between 1750 and 1886. Quantitative and qualitative data from different cities and produce…
Julie Peakman, Peg Plunkett, Memoirs of a Whore
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Prostitution and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Ports
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 countryside and from abroad. The busy urban environment, the high number of sailors and single men …
Introduction to Crime and Gender in History
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.
Petty Criminality, Gender Bias, and Judicial Practice in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Recent studies on gender and crime tend to emphasize the differences in the treatment of men and women by the criminal courts.Historians researching western European criminal justice have proved that in many instances women were treated with more leniency than men.For London, between 1780 and 1820, Peter King has shown that the judges and juries of the Old Bailey were more likely to sentence a male suspect to death than a woman and that acquittal…
Homo sapiens and Criminality
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, which governed primitive communities, were organized around the family and tribal environment. Even in …
Wanbedrijven en overtredingen te Amsterdam en Leiden Een introductie op twee datasets, 1850 - 1905
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 van de lagere rechtbanken, die van arrondissementen en de kantons, zijn weinig onderzocht. De const…
Freedom of Movement, Access to the Urban Centres, and Abolition of Slavery in the French Caribbean
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 after 1848. The abolition of slavery in the French Antilles on 27 April 1848 led to a modification of t…
Gender and the Geography of Crime in Nineteenth-Century Leiden and Amsterdam
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 thoroughfares. The article aims to shed light on common practices and understandings between men an…
Introduction to the Special Issue Migrants and the Criminal Courts in Western Europe, 1600-1900
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 contentious issue for the local and national authorities
Jos Wassink, Dagelijks leven in ‘ontugt’. Prostitutie in de vestingstad ’s-Hertogenbosch, 1629-1795
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
The Lure of the City: Migration, Crime, and Urbanization in Amsterdam, 1850-1905
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 of specific crimes. The crisis experienced by the urban labour market in the late 1870 and 1880s had …
Sex work and war in the early modern Low Countries
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 moral and legal reforms ultimately undermined these gains. It shows that the economic opportunities dur…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (7 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works)