Gerd Schwerhoff, Aktenkundig und gerichtsnotorisch. Einführung in die Historische Kriminalitätsforschung

The writings about the history of crime in (German) historiography are deeply influenced by the way the relations between state and the society have been conceptualized during the last decades: Until the 1970s many studies pursued a relatively straightforward conflict-theory-approach: repressive st...

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Publicat a:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/chs,
Autor principal: Weinhauer, Klaus
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: Crime, Histoire & Sociétés 2009
Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumari:The writings about the history of crime in (German) historiography are deeply influenced by the way the relations between state and the society have been conceptualized during the last decades: Until the 1970s many studies pursued a relatively straightforward conflict-theory-approach: repressive state agencies were seen as imposing their defining powers on the lower classes, thus creating criminality. But with the turn towards cultural history in the late 1980s and the 1990s matters changed,...