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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Studies in legal history |
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Studies in legal history.
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1. The "Internal Borders": Strategies of Exclusion in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. Protective Supervision -- 3. Penal Utopias: The Deportation Movement in the Wilhelmine Era -- 4. The Ex-Convict as National Hero: The Captain from Kopcnick and the Discourse of Reform -- 5. Criminals in the "Fortress": War, Punishment, and Welfare -- 6. City of Love and Supervision: The Bielefeld System -- 7. The End of Justice: Soziale Gerichtshilfe in the Weimar Republic -- 8. Crisis and Renewal in Criminal Reform |
| Summary |
"Germany today has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the industrialized world, and social welfare principles play an essential role at all levels of the German criminal justice system. Warren Rosenblum examines the roots of this social approach to criminal policy in the reform movements of the Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, when reformers strove to replace state institutions of control and incarceration with private institutions of protective supervision." |
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"Reformers believed that private charities and volunteers could diagnose and treat social pathologies in a way that coercive state institutions could not. The expansion of welfare for criminals set the stage for a more economical system of punishment, Rosenblum argues, but it also opened the door to new, more expansive controls over individuals marked as "asocial." With the reformers' success, the issue of who had power over welfare became increasingly controversial and dangerous. Other historians have suggested that the triumph of eugenics in the 1890s was predicated upon the abandonment of liberal and Christian assumptions about human malleability |
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Rosenblum demonstrates, however, that the turn to "criminal biology" was not a reaction against social reform, but rather an effort to rescue its legitimacy."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Punishment -- Germany -- History
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Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- Germany -- History
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects
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Criminals -- Rehabilitation
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Punishment
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Germany
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781469606767 |
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1469606763 |
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