Introduction. Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany 1
4. Part I. Criminal Justice in Imperial Germany
5. 1. Justice is Blind: Crowds, Irrationality, and Criminal Law in the Late Kaiserreich 31
6. 2. Punishment on the Path to Socialism: Socialist Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Justice before World War I 56
7. 3. Reforming Women’s Prisons in Imperial Germany 86
8. Part II. Penal Reform in the Weimar Republic
9. 4. Between Reform and Repression: Imprisonment in Weimar Germany 115
10. 5. The Medicalization of Wilhelmine and Weimar Juvenile Justice Reconsidered 137
11. 6. Welfare and Justice: The Battle over Gerichtshilfe in the Weimar Republic 158
12. Part III. Constructions of Crime in the Weimar Courts, Media, and Literature
13. 7. Prostitutes, Respectable Women, and Women from “Outside”: The Carl Grossmann Sexual Murder Case in Postwar Berlin 185
14. 8. Class, Youth, and Sexuality in the Construction of the Lustmörder: The 1928 Murder Trial of Karl Hussmann 207
15. 9. Crime and Literature in the Weimar Republic and Beyond: Telling the Tale of the Poisoners Ella Klein and Margarete Nebbe 226
16. Part IV. Criminal Justice in Nazi and Postwar Germany
17. 10. Serious Juvenile Crime in Nazi Germany 247
18. 11. Criminal Law after National Socialism: The Renaissance of Natural Law and the Beginnings of Penal Reform in West Germany 270
19. 12. Repressive Rehabilitation: Crime, Morality, and Delinquency in Berlin-Brandenburg, 1945–1958 302
20. Notes on Contributors 327
21. Bibliography 331
22. Index 355