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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Wetzell, Richard F., author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2000] ©2000
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 348 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in legal history Studies in legal history.
Subject:	Criminology -- Germany -- History. Criminals -- Sociological aspects. Criminal Psychology -- history. Eugenics -- history. Criminology. Germany. Germany. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11155921

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Varying Form of Title:	History of German criminology, 1880-1945 German criminology, 1880-1945
ISBN:	0807861049 9780807861042 0807825352 9780807825358 0807825352 9780807825358
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-343) and index. English. Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed August 31, 2016).
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Wetzell, Richard F. Inventing the criminal. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2000 0807825352

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.