Urbanization and Crime
Germany 1871–1914
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- Author: Eric A. Johnson, Central Michigan University
- Date Published: July 2002
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521527002
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This book contributes to modern German history and to the sociological understanding of crime in urban societies. Its central argument is that cities do not cause crime. It focuses on crime during Germany's period of most rapid growth. From 1871-1914, German cities, despite massive growth, socialist agitation, non-ethnic immigration, and the censure of conservative elites, were not particularly crime-infested. Nevertheless, governmental authorities often overreacted against city populations, helping to set Germany on a dangerous authoritarian course.
Read more- Most rigorous, social-scientific study to date demonstrating that neither urban environments themselves nor the change in modern societies from rural to urban cause crime
- Illustrates how Germany's overconcern for order heightened police powers, curtailed individual liberties, and paved the way for Nazism
- Examines women as criminals and victims in a modernising society
Reviews & endorsements
"...important and often fascinating..." Journal of Interdisciplinary History
See more reviews"...a very impressive array of official criminal statistics." Gabriel Finder, American Journal of Sociology
"...Johnson's book is a gold mine of information...." Central European History
"In this rich volume, Eric A. Johnson undertakes a task that historians far too often overlook: the painstaking reexamination of received scholarly wisdom....Johnson's book is not only of value to german specialists, but it should help frame the discussion about the history of crime in industrialized society." Kenneth F. Ledford, The Historian
"...exceptional and very persuasive study of crime and criminal justice in Germany during the late nineteenth and erly twentieth centuries...." Kevin F. Ryan, International Criminal Justice Review
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- Date Published: July 2002
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521527002
- length: 260 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.39kg
- contains: 14 b/w illus. 2 maps 38 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The criminal justice system: safe streets in a well-organized police state
2. Popular opinion: crime as a 'foreign' concept
3. Long-term trends: the modernization of crime and the modernization of German society
4. Urban-rural difference, ethnicity and hardship: cities are not to blame
5. Criminals and victims: the crucial importance of gender
6. Conclusion: crime rates, crime theories and German society.
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