Inventing the criminal: a history of German criminology, 1880-1945
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Main Author: Wetzell, Richard F. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press c2000
Series:Studies in legal history
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-343) and index
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 348 p.)
ISBN:0807825352
0807861049
9780807825358
9780807861042