This page provides a selection of relevant recent publications by members of the research network. More exhaustive bibliographies can be found on the members’ personal pages.

2024

Willemijn Ruberg and Sara Serrano Martínez, ‘Pathologization, Gender and Law in Cases of Infanticide in Spain and the Netherlands in the Mid-Twentieth Century: A Comparative Perspective’, Law and History Review (2024) doi:10.1017/S0738248023000652

Pauline Dirven, ‘Detached from Sympathy, Unconscious of Trauma. The Impact of the Forensic Virtues of Impartiality and Detachment on Rape Examinations in Britain 1924-1978′, Social History of Medicine (2024)

2023

Martínez, Sara Serrano, ‘Forensic physicians and the Francoist prosecution of infanticide, 1939-1969: The case of the haemorrhage of the umbilical cord as cause of death’, in: Lara Bergers, Pauline Dirven, Willemijn Ruberg and Sara Serrano Martínez (eds), Forensic Cultures in Modern Europe (Manchester University Press, 2023) 191-215

Dirven, Pauline, ‘Sober suits, bowler hats and white lab coats: Enclothed impartiality and the tailoring of a bourgeois expert persona in British courtrooms, 1920-1960’, in: Lara Bergers, Pauline Dirven, Willemijn Ruberg and Sara Serrano Martínez (eds), Forensic Cultures in Modern Europe (Manchester University Press, 2023) 117-146

Parfenchyk, Volha and Willemijn Ruberg, ‘Doing law, psychiatric expertise and “crimes of passion” in the Netherlands and Russia in the twentieth century’, in: Lara Bergers, Pauline Dirven, Willemijn Ruberg and Sara Serrano Martínez (eds), Forensic Cultures in Modern Europe (Manchester University Press, 2023) 216-239

Bergers, Lara, ‘A culture of testimony. The importance of ‘speaking witnesses’ in Dutch sexual crimes investigations and trials, 1930-1960’,  in: Lara Bergers, Pauline Dirven, Willemijn Ruberg and Sara Serrano Martínez (eds), Forensic Cultures in Modern Europe (Manchester University Press, 2023) 49-70

Willemijn Ruberg, Lara Bergers, Pauline Dirven and Sara Serrano Martínez (eds.), Forensic Cultures in Modern Europe (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023).

Willemijn Ruberg, “Embodiment and Experience”, HEX Handbook (20 February 2023).

Willemijn Ruberg, “Hysteria as a Shape-Shifting Forensic Psychiatric Diagnosis in the Netherlands ca. 1885-1960”, Gender & History 35:2 (2023) 565-581.

Willemijn Ruberg and Siska van der Plas, “‘An astonishing human failure’. The influence of gender on the image of perpetrators of infanticide in the courtroom and crime reporting in the Netherlands, 1960-1989”, The History of the Family. An international Quarterly 28:1 (2023) 17-36.

2022

Elwin Hofman, “A Useful Science: Criminal Interrogation and the Turn to Psychology in Germany Around 1800,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 58 (2022) 319-334.

Elwin Hofman & Gerrit Verhoeven (eds.), “Confess and you’ll Feel Better! Cultures of Criminal Interrogation, 1650-1850.” Special issue of Crime, History & Societies / Crime, histoire & sociétés 26 (2022) 5-118.

2021

Elwin Hofman, Trials of the Self: Murder, Mayhem and the Remaking of the Mind, 1750-1830 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021).

Elwin Hofman, “Corporeal Truth: Conscience, Fear and the Body in French Criminal Interrogations, 1750-1850,” Cultural and Social History 18:1 (2021) 61-78.

Ruberg, W.G., ‘Infanticide and the influence of psychoanalysis on Dutch forensic psychiatry in the mid-twentieth century’, History of Psychiatry 32:2 (2021) 227–239.