Crime, Police and and the "Good Order:" Germany (From Crime History and Histories of Crime: Studies in the Historiography of Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern History, P 109-137, 1996, Clive Emsley and Louis A Knafla, eds. -- See NCJ-161818)

• NCJ Number: 161823
• Author(s): A Ludtke; H Reinke
• Date Published: 1996
• Length: 29 pages
• Sale Source: Greenwood Publishing Group
• Publication Type: Historical Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This paper examines the extent and nature of research on the history of policing in Germany.

Abstract

The introductory section notes that modern crime and criminal justice history had a late start in Germany; in the mid- 1970's, Carsten Kuther's study of organized banditry from the 18th to the early 20th centuries and Dirk Blaius's research into bourgeois society and criminality in early 19th-century Prussia marked the beginning of a modern crime and criminal justice history in Germany. Sections of this paper focus on the social history of crime in German historiography; police, criminal justice, and the emerging modern state; rapid socioeconomic transformation and continuing emphasis on "good order," 1789 to 1815-71; the German police during the imperial period (1871- 1918); German police in the Weimar Republic period (1918-1933); criminal justice and police under fascism; and police in Germany after 1945. The concluding section addresses the historiography of crime, police, and criminal justice in Germany in the 1990's. 87 notes