Antoon Vrints
Biographic Data
| ID | 6324948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antoon Vrints |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antoon |
| FAMILY NAME | Vrints |
| SIGNATURE | VRINTS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
War as a politicizing experience
Doing Justice In Wartime
Sebastian Bischoff, Kriegsziel Belgien
The Theatre of the Street
In The Theatre of the Street: Public Violence in Antwerp During the First Half of the Twentieth Century Antoon Vrints offers a historical analysis of the meanings and functions of street violence in a modern European city. Commonly perceived as the senseless outcome of social disintegration in urban contexts, public violence appears here as a meaningful strategy to settle conflicts informally. Making use of Antwerp police records, Vrints shows th…
Police–public relations in transition in Antwerp, 1840s–1914
This article examines how police–public relations have evolved during the nineteenth-century expansion of formal policing. Following recent critiques of the ‘state monopolization thesis’, it dismisses the idea of a ‘policeman-state’ progressively assuming dominion over the governance of crime, generating vicious antagonism between police and public, and effectively coercing the latter into obedience. In order to chart changes in police–public rel…
Beyond Victimization
Hunger and dependence on aid among broad sections of the population are often used as a symbol of Belgium’s suffering during World War I. However, to view food consumption and politics from the perspective of victimization does not do justice to the complexity of this history. The reductionist nature of such an approach can be demonstrated by an analysis of the many protests in occupied and liberated Belgium to defend claims to food. Far from res…
Banditry in occupied and liberated Belgium, 1914–21. Social practices and state reactions
The specific combination of massive impoverishment and the disintegration of State authority provided a fertile ground for banditry in Belgium during World War One. The resurgence of banditry in a heavily urbanized and industrialized western European society and in an established state is difficult to reconcile with the prevailing perceptions of the history of banditry as a rural and Ancien Régime phenomenon. This indicates that indeed the histor…
Martin Conway, The Sorrows of Belgium
Albert Eggens, Van daad tot vonnis. Door Drenten gepleegde criminaliteit voor en tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog
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
Police–public relations in transition in Antwerp, 1840s–1914
This article examines how police–public relations have evolved during the nineteenth-century expansion of formal policing. Following recent critiques of the ‘state monopolization thesis’, it dismisses the idea of a ‘policeman-state’ progressively assuming dominion over the governance of crime, generating vicious antagonism between police and public, and effectively coercing the latter into obedience. In order to chart changes in police–public rel…
Banditry in occupied and liberated Belgium, 1914–21. Social practices and state reactions
The specific combination of massive impoverishment and the disintegration of State authority provided a fertile ground for banditry in Belgium during World War One. The resurgence of banditry in a heavily urbanized and industrialized western European society and in an established state is difficult to reconcile with the prevailing perceptions of the history of banditry as a rural and Ancien Régime phenomenon. This indicates that indeed the histor…
Albert Eggens, Van daad tot vonnis. Door Drenten gepleegde criminaliteit voor en tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog
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
Banditry in occupied and liberated Belgium, 1914–21. Social practices and state reactions
The specific combination of massive impoverishment and the disintegration of State authority provided a fertile ground for banditry in Belgium during World War One. The resurgence of banditry in a heavily urbanized and industrialized western European society and in an established state is difficult to reconcile with the prevailing perceptions of the history of banditry as a rural and Ancien Régime phenomenon. This indicates that indeed the histor…
Martin Conway, The Sorrows of Belgium
Beyond Victimization
Hunger and dependence on aid among broad sections of the population are often used as a symbol of Belgium’s suffering during World War I. However, to view food consumption and politics from the perspective of victimization does not do justice to the complexity of this history. The reductionist nature of such an approach can be demonstrated by an analysis of the many protests in occupied and liberated Belgium to defend claims to food. Far from res…
Police–public relations in transition in Antwerp, 1840s–1914
This article examines how police–public relations have evolved during the nineteenth-century expansion of formal policing. Following recent critiques of the ‘state monopolization thesis’, it dismisses the idea of a ‘policeman-state’ progressively assuming dominion over the governance of crime, generating vicious antagonism between police and public, and effectively coercing the latter into obedience. In order to chart changes in police–public rel…
The Theatre of the Street
In The Theatre of the Street: Public Violence in Antwerp During the First Half of the Twentieth Century Antoon Vrints offers a historical analysis of the meanings and functions of street violence in a modern European city. Commonly perceived as the senseless outcome of social disintegration in urban contexts, public violence appears here as a meaningful strategy to settle conflicts informally. Making use of Antwerp police records, Vrints shows th…
Doing Justice In Wartime
Sebastian Bischoff, Kriegsziel Belgien
War as a politicizing experience
Political science (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)