Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945Recent 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 Imperi |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
CHAPTER ONE THE ORIGINS OF MODERN CRIMINOLOGY | 15 |
Medical Explanations of Crime | 17 |
Moral Statistics | 21 |
Studies of the Criminal CLASSES | 25 |
Lombrosos Theory of the Born Criminal | 28 |
The German Penal Reform Movement | 31 |
FROM CRIMINAL ANTHROPOLOGY TO CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY 18801914 | 39 |
From Mindarwertige to Psychopathic Personalities | 144 |
The Search for Genetic Factor | 153 |
The First Twin Study | 161 |
Criminal Psychology | 168 |
Assessing the Different Trends In Weimar Criminal Biology | 174 |
CHAPTER SIX CRIMINOLOGY UNDER THE NAZI REGIME | 179 |
AntiSemitism | 186 |
The Search for Genetic Factors Continued | 190 |
Psychiatrists Prison Doctors and the Reception of Lombroso | 40 |
Degeneration Theory and Lombrosos German Critivs | 46 |
The Born Criminal Redefined | 52 |
Combining Biological and Social Explanations of Crime | 60 |
Conclusion | 68 |
CHAPTER THREE CRIMINOLOGY AND PENAL POLICY 18801914 | 73 |
The Question of Diminished Legal Responsibility | 79 |
The IKV Debate over the Treatment of Minderwertigo | 83 |
The Juristentag Debate over the Treatment of Minderwertige | 90 |
Proposals for the Surveillance and Preventive Internment of Minderwertige | 96 |
Proposals for Sterilization | 100 |
CHAPTER FOUR CRIMINAL SOCIOLOGY IN THE WEIMAR YEARS | 107 |
A Giant Experiment | 109 |
Franz Exners Criminal Sociology | 116 |
Criminology and Criminal Justice In the Weimar Years | 120 |
VARIETIES OF CRIMINAL BIOLOGY IN THE WEIMAR YEARS | 125 |
The Creation of Bavarias CriminalBiological Service | 128 |
Criticisms of the CriminalBiological Service | 137 |
Psychoanalysis and Somatotyplng | 142 |
The Search for Genetic Factors Criticized | 202 |
Two Syntheses | 209 |
Research on Asocials | 219 |
Conclusion | 230 |
CHAPTER SEVEN CRIMINOLOGY AND EUGENICS 19191945 | 233 |
Sterilization Debates among Weimar Psychiatrists 19231933 | 237 |
Weimar Bureaucrats and Politicians Respond 19231933 | 246 |
The Nazi Sterilization Law of July 1933 | 254 |
Expanding the Definition of Feeblemindedness | 260 |
Feeblemindedness and Crime In the Sterilization Courts | 265 |
The Treatment of Criminals under the Marriage Health Law | 272 |
Debates about Expanding the Sterilization Law to Include Criminals | 276 |
Radical Schemes and the Murder of Criminals in the Euthanasia Operation 19391945 | 280 |
Conclusion | 289 |
CONCLUSION | 295 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 307 |
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