Inventing the Criminal
Subtitle: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945 (Studies in Legal History)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 2, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780807825358
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Eugenics & breeding; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; European history: from c 1900 -; Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Modern - 20th Century; Criminology (General); Germany - History; Social Science; Sociology; Germany; Europe - Germany; German criminology; Nazi; personality type; crime; criminal biology; science; medicine; psychiatry; law; penal reform; criminal justice; eugenics; sterilization; Imperial Germany; Weimar Republic; Nazi Germany; German history; History / Germany; Criminology; History
First sentence: German criminology emerged as a recognized scientific field in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as a result of three interconnected developments: the emergence of a new German penal reform movement, the publication and reception of Cesare Lombroso's theory of the "born criminal," and an increasing interest in criminological questions among German psychiatrists.