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.
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
*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 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 den Autor
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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