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Record Nr.

UNISA996552371803316

Autore

De Groot Timon

Titolo

Citizens into dishonored felons : felony disenfranchisement, honor, and rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933 / / Timon de Groot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

1-80539-112-7

1-80073-959-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in German history ; ; Volume 28

Disciplina

364.8094309034

Soggetti

Ex-convicts - Suffrage - Germany

Felon disenfranchisement - Germany

Germany Politics and government 1789-1900

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Rights of Citizenship Are Conditional Rights": Disenfranchisement, Honor, and -- Trust in the Criminal Codes before German Unification -- Institutions of Honor: A Leveling Society Searching to Protect Its Institutions -- Political Offenders vs. Common Criminals: Challenging the Distinction -- "The Chain of Dishonor": Petitioning for Rehabilitation in Imperial Germany -- "The Blessing of the War": World War I as a Chance for Rehabilitation -- "Your Honor Is Not My Honor": Disenfranchisement and Rehabilitation as a -- Political Battleground from the War to the End of the Weimar Republic.

Sommario/riassunto

Over the course of its history, the German Empire increasingly withheld basic rights-such as joining the army, holding public office, and even voting-as a form of legal punishment. Dishonored offenders were often stigmatized in both formal and informal ways, as their convictions shaped how they were treated in prisons, their position in the labour market, and their access to rehabilitative resources. With a focus on Imperial Germany's criminal policies and their afterlives in the Weimar era, Citizens into Dishonored Felons demonstrates how criminal punishment was never solely a disciplinary measure, but that it reflected a national moral compass that authorities used to dictate the



rights to citizenship, honour and trust.