Table of Contents
Introduction: Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany
Richard F. Wetzell Part I: Criminal Justice in Imperial Germany
Chapter 1. Justice is Blind: Crowds, Irrationality, and Criminal Law in the Late Kaiserreich Benjamin Carter Hett
Chapter 2. Punishment on the Path to Socialism: Socialist Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Justice before the First World War Andreas Fleiter
Chapter 3. Reforming Women’s Prisons in Imperial Germany Sandra Leukel
Part II: Penal Reform in the Weimar Republic
Chapter 4. Between Reform and Repression: Imprisonment in Weimar Germany Nikolaus Wachsmann *This chapter is not available in the open access edition due to rights restrictions. It is accessible in the print edition, spanning pages 115-136.
Chapter 5. The Medicalization of Wilhelmine and Weimar Juvenile Justice Reconsidered Gabriel N. Finder
Chapter 6. Welfare and Justice: The Battle over Gerichtshilfe in the Weimar Republic Warren Rosenblum
Part III: Constructions of Crime in the Weimar Courts, Media, and Literature
Chapter 7. Prostitutes, Respectable Women, and Women from “Outside”: The Carl Grossmann Sexual Murder Case in Postwar Berlin Sace Elder
Chapter 8. Class, Youth, and Sexuality in the Construction of the Lustmörder: The 1928 Murder Trial of Karl Hussmann Eva Bischoff and Daniel Siemens
Chapter 9. Crime and Literature in the Weimar Republic and Beyond: Telling the Tale of the Poisoners Ella Klein and Margarete Nebbe Todd Herzog
Part IV. Criminal Justice in Nazi and Postwar Germany
Chapter 10. Serious Juvenile Crime in Nazi Germany Robert G. Waite
Chapter 11. Criminal Law after National Socialism: The Renaissance of Natural Law and the Beginnings of Penal Reform in West Germany Petra Gödecke
Chapter 12. Repressive Rehabilitation: Crime, Morality and Delinquency in Berlin-Brandenburg, 1945-1958 Jennifer V. Evans
Contributors Bibliography