Murder scenes
Subtitle: normality, deviance, and criminal violence in Weimar Berlin
By: Sace Elder.
Series: Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780472117246
Subjects: Murder -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century; Homicide -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century; Deviant behavior -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century; Violence -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century; Crime -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century; Community life -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century; Berlin (Germany) -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Germany -- History -- 1918-1933; Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Life has recently become cheap" : murder, moral panic, and the uncertainty of normality; title: "The untrained gaze of the layperson" : the murder investigation; title: "She preferred staying with him to dying of hunger" : the Carl Grossmann sexual murder case; title: "A children's paradise" : crime and community in West Berlin; title: "What does Langu mean?" : solving murder and dissolving community in Prenzlauer Berg; title: "A marriage no better and no worse than many others" : domestic homicide, gender, and everyday violence; title: Conclusion: Violence and normality in Weimar Germany.