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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455876703321
• Autore: Wetzell Richard F
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2000
• ISBN: 0-8078-6104-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• Collana: Studies in legal history
• Disciplina: 364.943
• Soggetti: Criminology - Germany - History; Electronic books.
• 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