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Inventing the Criminal : a history of German Criminology, 1880-1945 / Richerd F. Wetzell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in legal historyPublisher: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2000]Copyright date: c2000Description: xiv, 348 pagine ; 24 cmContent type:
  • testo (txt)
Media type:
  • senza mediazione (n)
Carrier type:
  • volume (nc)
ISBN:
  • 9781469613826
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • HV 6022.G3.W48 2000
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.

Bibliografia (pagine 307-343) e indice.

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.