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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBergemann, Patrick
_eautore
245 1 0 _aJudge Thy Neighbor :
_bDenunciations in the Spanish Inquisition, Romanov Russia, and Nazi Germany /
_cPatrick Bergemann.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource :
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490 0 _aThe Middle Range Series
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tAcknowledgments --
_t1. A Theory of Denunciation --
_t2. The Spanish Inquisition --
_t3. Romanov Russia --
_t4. Nazi Germany --
_t5. Denunciations: Present and Future --
_tNotes --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aFrom the Spanish Inquisition to Nazi Germany to the United States today, ordinary people have often chosen to turn in their neighbors to the authorities. What motivates citizens to inform on the people next door? In Judge Thy Neighbor, Patrick Bergemann provides a theoretical framework for understanding the motives for denunciations in terms of institutional structures and incentives.In case studies of societies in which denunciations were widespread, Bergemann merges historical and quantitative analysis to explore individual participation in social control. He sheds light on Jewish converts' shifting motives during the Spanish Inquisition; when and why seventeenth-century Romanov subjects fulfilled their obligation to report insults to the tsar's honor; and the widespread petty and false complaints filed by German citizens under the Third Reich, as well as present-day plea bargains, whistleblowing, and crime reporting. Bergemann finds that when authorities use coercion or positive incentives to elicit information, individuals denounce out of self-preservation or to gain rewards. However, in the absence of these incentives, denunciations are often motivated by personal resentments and grudges. In both cases denunciations facilitate social control not because of citizen loyalty or shared ideology but through the local interests of ordinary participants. Offering an empirically and theoretically rich account of the dynamics of denunciation as well as vivid descriptions of the denounced, Judge Thy Neighbor is a timely and compelling analysis of the reasons people turn in their acquaintances, with relevance beyond conventionally repressive regimes.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 0 _aDenunciation (Criminal law)
_zEurope
_xHistory.
650 0 _aInquisition
_zSpain
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMalicious accusation
_zEurope
_xHistory.
650 0 _aNational socialism
_zGermany
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650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/berg18016
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231542388
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