Inventing the criminal : a history of German criminology, 1880-1945

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

A history of German criminology from Imperial Germany through the Weimar Republic to the end of the Third Reich. Drawing on primary sources, it shows that German biomedical research on crime predominated over sociological research and thus contributed to the rise of the eugenics movement.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wetzell, Richard F. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2000]
Series:Studies in legal history.
Subjects:
Criminology > Germany > History.
Criminals > Sociological aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Criminology
Kriminologie
Criminologie.
Germany
Deutschland
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The origins of modern criminology
  • From criminal anthropology to criminal psychology, 1880-1914
  • Criminology and penal policy, 1880-1914
  • Criminal sociology in the Weimar years
  • Varieties of criminal biology in the Weimar years
  • Criminology under the Nazi regime
  • Criminology and eugenics, 1919-1945.

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