Review: Richard F. Wetzell, Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945 (Chapel Hill and London, 2000)

Authors

Andre Wakefield, Pitzer CollegeFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Program

History (Pitzer)

Publication Date

3-2002

Keywords

Criminology, Germany, Criminal psychology, Eugenics

Abstract

Reviewed work: Richard F. Wetzell. Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880–1945. (Studies in Legal History.) xvi + 348 pp., bibl., index. Chapel Hill/London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. $39.95.

Comments

Previously linked to as: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/irw,251.

Published by the University of Chicago Press: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/journals/journal/isis.html.

Article can be found at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/343270

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© 2002 University of Chicago Press

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DOI

10.1086/343270

Recommended Citation

Andre Wakefield. Review of Wetzell, Richard F., Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945. Isis 93.1 (March 2002): 100-101. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/343270