The origins of modern criminology -- From criminal anthropology to criminal psychology, 1880-1914 -- Criminology and penal policy, 1880-1914 -- Criminal sociology in the Weimar years -- Varieties of criminal biology in the Weimar years -- Criminology under the Nazi regime -- Criminology and eugenics, 1919-1945
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-343) and index
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Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed August 31, 2016)
