Inventing the criminal : a history of German criminology, 1880-1945 / Richard F. Wetzell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wetzell, Richard F.

Series:

Studies in legal history.

Studies in legal history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology--Germany--History.

Criminology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of biological research into the causes of crime, but the origins of this kind of research date back to the late nineteenth century. Here, Richard Wetzell presents the first history of German criminology from Imperial Germany through the Weimar Republic to the end of the Third Reich, a period that provided a unique test case for the perils associated with biological explanations of crime.Drawing on a wealth of primary sources from criminological, legal, and psychiatric literature, Wetzell shows that German biomedical research on crime predominate

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: The Origins of Modern Criminology; 2: From Criminal Anthropology to Criminal Psychology, 1880-1914; 3: Criminology and Penal Policy, 1880-1914; 4: Criminal Sociology in the Weimar Years; 5: Varieties of Criminal Biology in the Weimar Years; 6: Criminology under the Nazi Regime; 7: Criminology and Eugenics, 1919-1945; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-343) and index.

ISBN:

9798890872272

9780807861042

0807861049

OCLC:

476237602