The Criminals and their Scientists

Autor(en)

Peter Becker, Richard Wetzell

Abstrakt

This book presents recent research on the history of criminology from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries in Western Europe (Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Italy) and in Argentina, Australia, Japan, and the United States. Approaching the history of criminology as a history of science and practice, the chapters examine the discourse on crime and criminals that surfaced as part of different discourses and practices, including the activities of the police and the courts, parliamentary debates, and media reports, as well as the writings of moral statisticians, jurists, and medical doctors. By providing a comparative study of the worldwide reception of Cesare Lombroso’s criminal-anthropological ideas, the book seeks to elucidate the relationship between criminological discourse and politics, society, and culture.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Geschichte

Externe Organisation(en)

Deutsches Historisches Institut, Washington, DC

Anzahl der Seiten

492

Publikationsdatum

2006

ÖFOS 2012

603123 Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 505008 Kriminologie, 601016 Österreichische Geschichte, 601014 Neuere Geschichte

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/740dc40a-8346-4e82-9d95-521b65b08905