A Modern History Of German Criminal Law

Author : Thomas Vormbaum
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783642372735

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A Modern History of German Criminal Law by Thomas Vormbaum Pdf

Increasingly, international governmental networks and organisations make it necessary to master the legal principles of other jurisdictions. Since the advent of international criminal tribunals this need has fully reached criminal law. A large part of their work is based on comparative research. The legal systems which contribute most to this systemic discussion are common law and civil law, sometimes called continental law. So far this dialogue appears to have been dominated by the former. While there are many reasons for this, one stands out very clearly: Language. English has become the lingua franca of international legal research. The present book addresses this issue. Thomas Vormbaum is one of the foremost German legal historians and the book's original has become a cornerstone of research into the history of German criminal law beyond doctrinal expositions; it allows a look at the system’s genesis, its ideological, political and cultural roots. In the field of comparative research, it is of the utmost importance to have an understanding of the law’s provenance, in other words its historical DNA.

Author : Richard F. Wetzell
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782382478

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Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany by Richard F. Wetzell Pdf

The history of criminal justice in modern Germany has become a vibrant field of research, as demonstrated in this volume. Following an introductory survey, the twelve chapters examine major topics in the history of crime and criminal justice from Imperial Germany, through the Weimar and Nazi eras, to the early postwar years. These topics include case studies of criminal trials, the development of juvenile justice, and the efforts to reform the penal code, criminal procedure, and the prison system. The collection also reveals that the history of criminal justice has much to contribute to other areas of historical inquiry: it explores the changing relationship of criminal justice to psychiatry and social welfare, analyzes representations of crime and criminal justice in the media and literature, and uses the lens of criminal justice to illuminate German social history, gender history, and the history of sexuality.

Author : Annette Weinke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789201062

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Law, History, and Justice by Annette Weinke Pdf

Since the nineteenth century, the development of international humanitarian law has been marked by complex entanglements of legal theory, historical trauma, criminal prosecution, historiography, and politics. All of these factors have played a role in changing views on the applicability of international law and human-rights ideas to state-organized violence, which in turn have been largely driven by transnational responses to German state crimes. Here, Annette Weinke gives a groundbreaking long-term history of the political, legal and academic debates concerning German state and mass violence in the First World War, during the National Socialist era and the Holocaust, and under the GDR.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847314383

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The German Criminal Code by Anonim Pdf

German substantive criminal law has been influential in many civil law countries, most notably in the Hispanic world. In the common law countries, not surprisingly because of the systemic differences in approach, its impact has been much less, if not negligible. This may be largely explained as a result of the language barrier. An up-to-date and reliable English translation of the German Criminal Code has been conspicuously missing for some time. This book presents a new English translation of the Strafgesetzbuch, (the Criminal Code), in its most recent amended form of August 2007. The Code is the centrepiece of German substantive criminal law and informs the interpretation and application of any other criminal provisions which can be found in specific legislation. The translation thus affords an opportunity to profit from a legal tradition that has had a major influence over history and has a rich experience of doctrinal analysis. The translation adheres as closely as possible to the textual structure of the original, but has been made palatable to an English ear. It is intended as a companion to the author's Principles of German Criminal Law which was published in December 2008. Please click on the link below for further details. www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841136301.

Author : Richard F. Wetzell
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807861042

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Inventing the Criminal by Richard F. Wetzell Pdf

Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of biological research into the causes of crime, but the origins of this kind of research date back to the late nineteenth century. Here, Richard Wetzell presents the first history of German criminology from Imperial Germany through the Weimar Republic to the end of the Third Reich, a period that provided a unique test case for the perils associated with biological explanations of crime. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources from criminological, legal, and psychiatric literature, Wetzell shows that German biomedical research on crime predominated over sociological research and thus contributed to the rise of the eugenics movement and the eventual targeting of criminals for eugenic measures by the Nazi regime. However, he also demonstrates that the development of German criminology was characterized by a constant tension between the criminologists' hereditarian biases and an increasing methodological sophistication that prevented many of them from endorsing the crude genetic determinism and racism that characterized so much of Hitler's regime. As a result, proposals for the sterilization of criminals remained highly controversial during the Nazi years, suggesting that Nazi biological politics left more room for contention than has often been assumed.

Author : Joy Wiltenburg
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813933030

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Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany by Joy Wiltenburg Pdf

With the growth of printing in early modern Germany, crime quickly became a subject of wide public discourse. Sensational crime reports, often featuring multiple murders within families, proliferated as authors probed horrific events for religious meaning. Coinciding with heightened witch panics and economic crisis, the spike in crime fears revealed a continuum between fears of the occult and more mundane dangers. In Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany, Joy Wiltenburg explores the beginnings of crime sensationalism from the early sixteenth century into the seventeenth century and beyond. Comparing the depictions of crime in popular publications with those in archival records, legal discourse, and imaginative literature, Wiltenburg highlights key social anxieties and analyzes how crime texts worked to shape public perceptions and mentalities. Reports regularly featured familial destruction, flawed economic relations, and the apocalyptic thinking of Protestant clergy. Wiltenburg examines how such literature expressed and shaped cultural attitudes while at the same time reinforcing governmental authority. She also shows how the emotional inflections of crime stories influenced the growth of early modern public discourse, so often conceived in terms of rational exchange of ideas.

Author : Carl Ludwig Von Bar,Ludwig von Bar
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Criminal Law
ISBN : 9781584770138

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A History of Continental Criminal Law by Carl Ludwig Von Bar,Ludwig von Bar Pdf

This classic study explores the history of criminal law in Roman, Germanic and medieval Europe from ancient times to the date of authorship, and includes a scientific and philosophical discussion of the principles underlying criminal law. Originally published under the auspices of the Association of American Law Schools as volume 6 of The Continental Legal History Series. lvi, 561 pp.

Author : Maria R. Boes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317157984

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Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany by Maria R. Boes Pdf

Frankfurt am Main, in common with other imperial German cities, enjoyed a large degree of legal autonomy during the early modern period, and produced a unique and rich body of criminal archives. In particular, Frankfurt’s Strafenbuch, which records all criminal sentences between 1562 and 1696, provides a fascinating insight into contemporary penal trends. Drawing on this and other rich resources, Dr. Boes reveals shifting and fluid attitudes towards crime and punishment and how these were conditioned by issues of gender, class, and social standing within the city’s establishment. She attributes a significant role in this process to the steady proliferation of municipal advocates, jurists trained in Roman Law, who wielded growing legal and penal prerogatives. Over the course of the book, it is demonstrated how the courts took an increasingly hard line with select groups of people accused of criminal behavior, and the open manner with which advocates exercised cultural, religious, racial, gender, and sexual-orientation repressions. Parallel with this, however, is identified a trend of marked leniency towards soldiers who enjoyed an increasingly privileged place within the judicial system. In light of this discrepancy between the treatment of civilians and soldiers, the advocates’ actions highlight the emergence and spread of a distinct military judicial culture and Frankfurt’s city council’s contribution to the quasi-militarization of a civilian court. By highlighting the polarized and changing ways the courts dealt with civilian and military criminals, a fuller picture is presented not just of Frankfurt’s sentencing and penal practices, but of broader attitudes within early modern Germany to issues of social position and cultural identity.

Author : Michael Bohlander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Comparative law
ISBN : 1472564626

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Principles of German Criminal Law by Michael Bohlander Pdf

Author : Ronnie Bloemberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004415027

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The Development of the Criminal Law of Evidence in the Netherlands, France and Germany between 1750 and 1870 by Ronnie Bloemberg Pdf

This book describes and explains how the so-called system of legal proofs, which consisted of a strict set of evidentiary rules, was replaced with the free evaluation of the evidence in France, Germany and the Netherlands between 1750 and 1870.

Author : Michael Stolleis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0226775259

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The Law Under the Swastika by Michael Stolleis Pdf

Michael Stolleis is part of a younger generation and is determined to honestly confront the past in hopes of preventing the same injustices from happening in the future.

Author : Helmut Walser Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199237395

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History by Helmut Walser Smith Pdf

This is the first comprehensive, multi-author survey of German history that features cutting-edge syntheses of major topics by an international team of leading scholars. Emphasizing demographic, economic, and political history, this Handbook places German history in a denser transnational context than any other general history of Germany. It underscores the centrality of war to the unfolding of German history, and shows how it dramatically affected the development of German nationalism and the structure of German politics. It also reaches out to scholars and students beyond the field of history with detailed and cutting-edge chapters on religious history and on literary history, as well as to contemporary observers, with reflections on Germany and the European Union, and on 'multi-cultural Germany.' Covering the period from around 1760 to the present, this Handbook represents a remarkable achievement of synthesis based on current scholarship. It constitutes the starting point for anyone trying to understand the complexities of German history as well as the state of scholarly reflection on Germany's dramatic, often destructive, integration into the community of modern nations. As it brings this story to the present, it also places the current post-unification Federal Republic of Germany into a multifaceted historical context. It will be an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and anyone interested in modern Germany.

Author : Michael Stolleis
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1571810579

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Public Law in Germany, 1800-1914 by Michael Stolleis Pdf

He argues that the concept of family resemblances, as that concept has been refined and extended in prototype theory in the contemporary cognitive sciences, is the most plausible analytical strategy for resolving the central problem of the book. In the solution proposed, religion is conceptualized as an affair of "more or less" rather than a matter of "yes or no," and no sharp line is drawn between religion and non-religion."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Alan E. Steinweis,Robert D. Rachlin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857457813

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The Law in Nazi Germany by Alan E. Steinweis,Robert D. Rachlin Pdf

While we often tend to think of the Third Reich as a zone of lawlessness, the Nazi dictatorship and its policies of persecution rested on a legal foundation set in place and maintained by judges, lawyers, and civil servants trained in the law. This volume offers a concise and compelling account of how these intelligent and welleducated legal professionals lent their skills and knowledge to a system of oppression and domination. The chapters address why German lawyers and jurists were attracted to Nazism; how their support of the regime resulted from a combination of ideological conviction, careerist opportunism, and legalistic selfdelusion; and whether they were held accountable for their Nazi-era actions after 1945. This book also examines the experiences of Jewish lawyers who fell victim to anti-Semitic measures. The volume will appeal to scholars, students, and other readers with an interest in Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and the history of jurisprudence.

Author : Kai Ambos,Antony Duff,Julian Roberts,Thomas Weigend,Alexander Heinze
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108483391

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Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice by Kai Ambos,Antony Duff,Julian Roberts,Thomas Weigend,Alexander Heinze Pdf

A comparative and collaborative study of the foundational principles and concepts that underpin different domestic systems of criminal law.