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Author:   Richard F. Wetzell
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   16
ISBN:  

9781800737280

ISBN 10:   1800737289
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   11 November 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany Richard F. Wetzell Part I: Criminal Justice in Imperial Germany Chapter 1. Justice is Blind: Crowds, Irrationality, and Criminal Law in the Late Kaiserreich Benjamin Carter Hett Chapter 2. Punishment on the Path to Socialism: Socialist Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Justice before the First World War Andreas Fleiter Chapter 3. Reforming Women's Prisons in Imperial Germany Sandra Leukel Part II: Penal Reform in the Weimar Republic Chapter 4. Between Reform and Repression: Imprisonment in Weimar Germany Nikolaus Wachsmann *This chapter is not available in the open access edition due to rights restrictions. It is accessible in the print edition, spanning pages 115-136. Chapter 5. The Medicalization of Wilhelmine and Weimar Juvenile Justice Reconsidered Gabriel N. Finder Chapter 6. Welfare and Justice: The Battle over Gerichtshilfe in the Weimar Republic Warren Rosenblum Part III: Constructions of Crime in the Weimar Courts, Media, and Literature Chapter 7. Prostitutes, Respectable Women, and Women from Outside : The Carl Grossmann Sexual Murder Case in Postwar Berlin Sace Elder Chapter 8. Class, Youth, and Sexuality in the Construction of the Lustmoerder: The 1928 Murder Trial of Karl Hussmann Eva Bischoff and Daniel Siemens Chapter 9. Crime and Literature in the Weimar Republic and Beyond: Telling the Tale of the Poisoners Ella Klein and Margarete Nebbe Todd Herzog Part IV. Criminal Justice in Nazi and Postwar Germany Chapter 10. Serious Juvenile Crime in Nazi Germany Robert G. Waite Chapter 11. Criminal Law after National Socialism: The Renaissance of Natural Law and the Beginnings of Penal Reform in West Germany Petra Goedecke Chapter 12. Repressive Rehabilitation: Crime, Morality and Delinquency in Berlin-Brandenburg, 1945-1958 Jennifer V. Evans Contributors Bibliography

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The history of criminal justice in modern Germany has become a vibrant field of historical research. The chapters in Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany not only lay the groundwork for writing a history of crime and criminal justice from the Kaiserreich to the early postwar period, but demonstrate that research in criminal justice history can make important contributions to other areas of historical inquiry. - SirReadaLot Overall the volume effectively moves beyond offering a one-dimensional legal history of modern Germany. Rather, the essays treat the history of crime, criminal law, and criminal justice as offering the means to reflect on broader social, cultural, and political issues facing Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. - Greg Eghigian, Penn State University These essays make significant contributions. Thoroughly researched in primary sources, for the most part archival, they are also based on close familiarity with the most recent writings by other scholars. Together, the essays should interest a wide range of scholars whose concerns encompass modern Germany, criminal justice, or both. - Andrew Lees, Rutgers University Gathering more than a dozen of the leading mid-career historians of crime and criminal justice in Germany from the United States, Canada, Germany, and Britain, this collection of essays represents a stunningly important contribution to one of the most vibrant fields in German history today... Deeply scholarly, sweepingly encompassing recent and older secondary work, but firmly grounded in empirical research, the essays in this volume represent an indispensable introduction to the field for scholars and students new to it, while at the same time stimulating the interpretive focus of scholars already working in the field. - Kenneth Ledford, Case Western Reserve University

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Richard F. Wetzell is a Research Fellow and Editor at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. His other publications include Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany (coedited, 2017), Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective (co-edited, 2006), and Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945 (UNC Press, 2000).

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