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oapen-20.500.12657-296072021-11-12T16:13:55Z Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany Wetzell, Richard F. History German history modern Germany legal history criminology Berlin Juvenile court Nazism Prison reform bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLW 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 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. 2018-07-26 23:55 2020-03-20 03:00:28 2020-04-01T12:33:36Z 2020-04-01T12:33:36Z 2014-05-01 book 1000326 OCN: 1042327082 9781785336577 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29607 eng Studies in German History application/pdf n/a 1000326.pdf Berghahn Books 10.2307/j.ctt9qct7p 101584 10.2307/j.ctt9qct7p 562fcfcf-0356-4c23-869a-acb39d8c84b5 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781785336577 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 101584 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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