Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-246-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 688 g

Reihe: Studies in German History

The history of criminal justice in modern Germany has become a vibrant field of research, as demonstrated in this volume. Following an introductory survey, the twelve chapters examine major topics in the history of crime and criminal justice from Imperial Germany, through the Weimar and Nazi eras, to the early postwar years. These topics include case studies of criminal trials, the development of juvenile justice, and the efforts to reform the penal code, criminal procedure, and the prison system. The collection also reveals that the history of criminal justice has much to contribute to other areas of historical inquiry: it explores the changing relationship of criminal justice to psychiatry and social welfare, analyzes representations of crime and criminal justice in the media and literature, and uses the lens of criminal justice to illuminate German social history, gender history, and the history of sexuality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wetzell, Richard F

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

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 Lustmörder: 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 Gödecke

Chapter 12. Repressive Rehabilitation: Crime, Morality and Delinquency in Berlin-Brandenburg, 1945-1958

Jennifer V. Evans

Contributors

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Wetzell, Richard F
Richard F. Wetzell is a Research Fellow and Editor at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. He is the author of Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945 (2000) and co-editor of Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective (2006) and Engineering Society: The Role of the Human and Social Sciences in Modern Societies, 1880-1980 (2012).