Beyond the Prison Gates - (Studies in Legal History) by Warren Rosenblum (Paperback)
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- 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.
- Author(s): Warren Rosenblum
- 344 Pages
- Freedom + Security / Law Enforcement, Criminal Law
- Series Name: Studies in Legal History
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Beyond the Prison Gates: Punishment and Welfare in Germany, 1850-1933Book Synopsis
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.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. Rosenblum demonstrates, however, that the turn to "criminal biology" was not a reaction against social reform, but rather an effort to rescue its legitimacy.
Review Quotes
"An inspiring contribution to the historiography of German criminal and social reform policies." -- German Historical Institute Bulletin
"Challenges the existing literature on turn-of-the-century criminology and interwar welfare reform. . . . A valuable piece of scholarship that offers fresh analyses in a clear and accessible style. . . . A very engaging book." -- American Historical Review
"Rosenblum's excellent book suggests a different narrative. . . . Exceptionally important for the light it sheds on the question of continuities in modern German history. . . . A fine achievement." -- Journal of European Studies
Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 6.1 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.1 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Studies in Legal History
Sub-Genre: Criminal Law
Genre: Freedom + Security / Law Enforcement
Number of Pages: 344
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Warren Rosenblum
Language: English
Street Date: March 1, 2014
TCIN: 93508094
UPC: 9781469615097
Item Number (DPCI): 247-16-0023
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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