Criminals and their scientists : the history of criminology in international perspective / edited by Peter Becker, Richard F. Wetzell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Becker, Peter, 1962- editor.

Wetzell, Richard F., editor.

Series:

Publications of the German Historical Institute.

Publications of the German Historical Institute

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology--History--19th century--Congresses.

Criminology.

Criminology--History--20th century--Congresses.

Criminologists--History--Congresses.

Criminologists.

Criminals--History--Congresses.

Criminals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 492 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Criminals & their Scientists

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents research on the history of criminology from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century in Western Europe (Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Italy) and in Argentina, Australia, Japan, and the United States. Approaching the history of criminology as a history of science and practice, the essays examine the discourse on crime and criminals that surfaced as part of different discourses and practices, including the activities of the police and the courts, parliamentary debates, media reports, as well as the writings of moral statisticians, jurists, and medical doctors. In addition, the book seeks to elucidate the relationship between criminological discourse and politics, society, and culture by providing a comparative study of the worldwide reception of Cesare Lombroso's criminal-anthropological ideas.

Contents:

Nonacademic sites of nineteenth-century criminological discourse. The French Revolution and the origins of French criminology / Marc Renneville

Murderers and "reasonable men" : the "criminology" of the Victorian judiciary / Martin J. Wiener

Unmasking counterhistory : an introductory exploration of criminality and the Jewish question / Michael Berkowitz

Moral discourse and reform in urban Germany, 1880s-1914 / Andrew Lees

The criminologists' gaze at the underworld : toward an archaeology of criminological writing / Peter Becker. Criminology as scientific and political practice in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cesare Lombroso and Italian criminology : theory and politics / Mary S. Gibson

Criminal anthropology : its reception in the United States and the nature of its appeal / Nicole Hahn Rafter

From the "atavistic" to the "inferior" criminal type : the impact of the Lombrosian Theory of the born criminal on German psychiatry / Mariacarda Gadebusch Bondio

Criminology, hygienism, and eugenics in France, 1870-1914 : the medical debates on the elimination of the "incorrigible" criminals / Laurent Mucchielli

Crime, prisons, and psychiatry : reconsidering problem populations in Australia, 1890-1930 / Stephen Garton

Positivist criminology and state formation in modern Argentina, 1890-1940 / Ricardo D. Salvatore

The birth of criminology in modern Japan / Yoji Nakatani.

The making of the criminologist. The international congresses of criminal anthropology : shaping the French and international criminological movement, 1886-1914 / Martine Kaluszynski

Making criminologists : tools, techniques, and the production of scientific authority / David G. Horn

'One of the strangest relics of a former state' : tattoos and the discourses of criminality in Europe, 1880-1920 / Jane Caplan

What criminals think about criminology : French criminals and criminological knowledge at the end of the nineteenth century / Philippe Artières

Talk of the town : the murder of Lucie Berlin and the production of local knowledge / Peter Fritzsche. Criminology in the first half of the twentieth century : the case of Weimar and Nazi Germany. Criminology in Weimar and Nazi Germany / Richard F. Wetzell

The biology of morality : criminal biology in Bavaria, 1924-1933 / Oliver Liang

Criminals and their analysts : psychoanalytic criminology in Weimar Germany and the first Austrian Republic / Gabriel N. Finder

Drinking and crime in modern Germany / Geoffrey J. Giles.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-03807-6

1-139-05240-3

OCLC:

824603573

Publisher Number:

9780521810128 (hbk.)