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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810213603321

Autore

Wetzell Richard F

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2000

ISBN

979-88-908722-7-2

0-8078-6104-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Collana

Studies in legal history

Disciplina

364.943

Soggetti

Criminology - Germany - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-343) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: The Origins of Modern Criminology; 2: From Criminal Anthropology to Criminal Psychology, 1880-1914; 3: Criminology and Penal Policy, 1880-1914; 4: Criminal Sociology in the Weimar Years; 5: Varieties of Criminal Biology in the Weimar Years; 6: Criminology under the Nazi Regime; 7: Criminology and Eugenics, 1919-1945; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of biological research into the causes of crime, but the origins of this kind of research date back to the late nineteenth century. Here, Richard Wetzell presents the first history of German criminology from Imperial Germany through the Weimar Republic to the end of the Third Reich, a period that provided a unique test case for the perils associated with biological explanations of crime.Drawing on a wealth of primary sources from criminological, legal, and psychiatric literature, Wetzell shows that German biomedical research on crime predominate