Beyond the prison gates : punishment and welfare in Germany, 1850-1933 / Warren Rosenblum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenblum, Warren, author.

Series:

Studies in legal history.

Studies in legal history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Punishment--Germany--History.

Punishment.

Criminal justice, Administration of--Social aspects--Germany--History.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Criminals--Rehabilitation--Germany--History.

Criminals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Germany today has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the industrialized world, and social welfare principles play an essential role at all levels of the German criminal justice system. Warren Rosenblum examines the roots of this social approach to criminal policy in the reform movements of the Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, when reformers strove to replace state institutions of control and incarceration with private institutions of protective supervision.Reformers believed that private charities and volunteers could diagnose and treat social pathologies in a way that coercive sta

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE: The "Internal Borders": Strategies of Exclusion in the Nineteenth Century; TWO: Protective Supervision; THREE: Penal Utopias: The Deportation Movement in the Wilhelmine Era; FOUR: The Ex-Convict as National Hero: The Captain from Köpenick and the Discourse of Reform; FIVE: Criminals in the "Fortress": War, Punishment, and Welfare; SIX: City of Love and Supervision: The Bielefeld System; SEVEN: The End of Justice?: Soziale Gerichtshilfe in the Weimar Republic; EIGHT: Crisis and Renewal in Criminal Reform; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography

IndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890882103

9781469606767

1469606763

OCLC:

823382518