BOOK: Martin LÖHNIG, Arnd KOCH (eds.), Strafgesetzbücher der Zwischenkriegszeit (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024), 181 p., ISBN 978-3-16-162432-2

ABOUT THE BOOK:

 

Nach der Epochenwende von 1918/1919 setzte in den neuen Staaten Mittelosteuropas eine Kodifikationswelle im Bereich des Strafrechts ein. Welche Optionen standen den nationalen Gesetzgebern offen? Aus welchen Quellen konnte und wollte man schöpfen? Welchen Einfluss hatte die moderne v. Liszt-Schule auf die Reformdebatte, etwa beim Umgang mit Gewohnheitsverbrechern, Maßregeln, unbestimmter Freiheitsstrafe, Geldstrafe, Jugendstrafrecht oder Strafvollzug? Wie war die Haltung zur Todesstrafe? Besteht eine Anbindung der Reformüberlegungen an die internationale Diskussion? Was sind die Gründe für das Gelingen oder das Scheitern der Reformanstrengungen? Welche Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede sind bei der Betrachtung der Gesetzgebungsarbeiten in den verschiedenen Staaten zu erkennen? Ziel dieses Bandes ist es, den gegenwärtigen Erkenntnisstand zu dokumentieren und zugleich Desiderate aufzuzeigen.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

Martin Löhnig: Eine vergessene Kodifikationsepoche. Die mitteleuropäische Strafrechtsreform der Zwischenkriegszeit

 

Attila Barna: Die Reform des ungarischen Strafrechts in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Novellen und politische Umbrüche

 

Danuta Janicka : Das Strafgesetzbuch für die Republik Polen - Arnd Koch: Strafrechtsreform in der Weimarer Republik

 

Marju Luts-Sootak/Marin Sedman: The Estonian Penal Code of 1929-1935. A Rare Codification Success in the Interwar Period

 

Dunja Milotić: Die Entstehung und die Grundzüge des Strafgesetzbuches für das Königreich der Serben, Kroaten und Slowenen von 1929

 

Petra Skřejpková: Die Entwicklung des Strafrechts in der Tschechoslowakei während der Zwischenkriegszeit und die Versuche einer Vereinheitlichung

 

Kamila Staudigl-Ciechowicz: Strafrechtsentwicklung in der Zwischenkriegszeit - Österreich

 

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BOOK: Lena HAASE, Strafverfolgungspraxis im Schein-Rechtsstaat des „Dritten Reiches“ [Gestapo – Herrschaft – Terror; 2] (Köln: Böhlau, 2023), 625 p, ISBN 978-3-412-52863-8

 

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Die Geheime Staatspolizei ist längst zum Sinnbild der Strafverfolgung in der NS-Zeit geworden. Sie gilt – gemeinsam mit den Sondergerichten und dem Volksgerichtshof – als Inbegriff nationalsozialistischer Rechtsbeugung im Kontext von Terror und Willkür. Nur selten werden hingegen auch die ordentlichen Gerichte auf regionaler Ebene sowie die übrigen Polizeibehörden berücksichtigt. Die Studie beleuchtet an einem regionalen Beispiel, wie sich in der alltäglichen Arbeitspraxis die Zusammenarbeit von Polizei, Gerichten und Staatsanwaltschaft gestaltete. Dabei rückt sie zentrale Tätigkeitsfelder der Regionalbehörden in den Fokus, um die Entwicklung der nationalsozialistischen Strafverfolgungspraxis nachzuzeichnen und mit einem akteurszentrierten Ansatz die Bedeutung von Juristen für das NS-Regime herauszuarbeiten.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Lena Haase ist seit April 2018 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im DFG-Projekt "Gestapo: NS-Terror vor Ort. Die Staatspolizeistelle in der südlichen Rheinprovinz". 

 

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BOOK: Arnd KOCH, Carl-Friedrich STUCKENBERG & Wolfgang WOHLERS (eds.), Eberhard Schmidt. Strafrechtshistoriker, Strafprozessualist und Strafrechtler [Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts; 126] (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024), 279 p., ISBN 978-3-16-162153-6

 

ABOUT THE BOOK:

 

Eberhard Schmidt (1891-1977) war als Jurist im Kaiserreich, in der Weimarer Republik, im NS-Staat und in der Bundesrepublik tätig, sein wissenschaftliches Werk umfasst neben dem materiellen Strafrecht die Strafrechtsgeschichte und das Strafprozessrecht. Schmidt gilt als Stammvater des Arztstrafrechts und war Schüler Franz von Liszts, dessen Lehrbuch er fortführte und dessen Ideen er in die Beratungen der Großen Strafrechtskommission der 1950er Jahre einbrachte. Als Rechtshistoriker prägte Schmidt die strafrechtsgeschichtlichen Vorstellungen mehrerer Juristengenerationen. Im Strafprozessrecht, dem er sich nach 1945 zuwandte, gilt sein »Lehrkommentar« als epochale wissenschaftliche Leistung. Die Beiträge des Bandes nehmen eine wissenschaftshistorische Verortung des Schmidt´schen Werkes vor und gehen der Frage nach, welche seiner Arbeiten auch aus heutiger Sicht von bleibendem Wert sind.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

Klaus-Peter Schroeder: Eberhard Schmidt (1891-1977) - Die »peregrinatio academica« eines deutschen Strafrechtslehrers - Arnd Koch: Eberhard Schmidt und das Dritte Reich - Milan Kuhli: Eberhard Schmidt als Rechtshistoriker - Mathias Schmoeckel: Der Inquisitionsprozess und seine Geschichten - Sven Großmann: Eberhard Schmidt und die Entwicklung des reformierten Strafverfahrens - Carl-Friedrich Stuckenberg: Die wissenschaftliche Behandlung des Strafprozessrechts - Wolfgang Wohlers: Die Rechtsstaatlichkeit des Strafverfahrens: Justizförmigkeit vs. Zweckmäßigkeit - Martin Löhnig: Das Richterbild bei Eberhard Schmidt - Heike Jung: Eberhard Schmidt und das Arztrecht - Thomas Weigend: Eberhard Schmidt und Franz von Liszts »Lehrbuch des Deutschen Strafrechts« - Sascha Ziemann: Eberhard Schmidt und das Erbe der Liszt-Schule nach 1945 - Wolfgang Frisch: Eberhard Schmidt als Kriminalpolitiker, insbesondere in der Strafrechtsreform der 1950er Jahre - Franz Streng: Eberhard Schmidt und der Strafvollzug

 

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BOOK: Nils HAUSER, Die Berliner Kriminalpolizei in Republik und Nationalsozialismus [Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts; 125] (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024), 479 p., ISBN 978-3-16-162624-1

 

 

ABOUT THE BOOK:

 

Anhand von Archiv- und zeitgenössischen Literaturquellen analysiert Nils Hauser die nicht eindeutige Aufgabenstellung der Kriminalpolizei zwischen Justiz und Polizei. Nach einem rechtshistorischen Überblick über die Entstehung von Polizei und Kriminalpolizei wendet er sich den (kriminal-)polizeilichen Rechtsgrundlagen zu. Sodann untersucht er den Aufbau und die personelle Zusammensetzung der Berliner Kriminalpolizei in den Jahren 1925 bis 1937 und insbesondere die personellen Veränderungen durch »Preußenschlag« und »Machtergreifung«. Er betrachtet die sich wandelnde Kriminalpolizeipraxis, insbesondere die Verfolgung von »Berufsverbrechern«, »Asozialen« und Juden sowie die Entstehung einer polizeilichen Justiz. Abschließend fügt Nils Hauser diese drei Teile in einem Überblick über die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Polizeirecht, Strafrecht und Kriminalpolizeipraxis zu einem Ganzen zusammen.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Einleitung
A. Forschungsstand und Quellenlage
B. Zielsetzung und Vorgehensweise
C. Vorbemerkung

§ 1 Rechtsgrundlagen
A. Das Verständnis von Polizei als Grundlage des Kriminalpolizeibegriffes
B. Die Kriminalpolizei und ihre Rechtsgrundlagen
C. Die Rechtsgrundlagen in Weimarer Republik und NS-Staat

§ 2 Institution
A. Föderale und gesellschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen
B. Institutionelle Verfasstheit
C. Berliner Polizei und "Preußenschlag“
D. Untergang der Weimarer Republik
E. Die Institution in Weimarer Republik und NS-Staat

§ 3 Rechtstatsächlichkeit
A. Kriminalpolizeilicher Alltag im Berlin der Weimarer Republik
B. Die Rechtspraxis der Verbrecherbekämpfung, Sozialhygiene und Minderheitenverfolgung durch die Berliner Kriminalpolizei im NS-Staat
C. Die Rechtstatsächlichkeit in Weimarer Republik und NS-Staat

Ergebnisse
A. Autonome justizielle Polizei und Kriminalitätsverwaltung
B. Polizeiliche Justiz und Verpolizeilichung des Strafprozesses
C. Schlussbetrachtung

 

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BOOK: Jorge Alberto Trujillo BRETÓN y Daniel FESSLER (coords.). El rescate de la memoria. Historias de transgresión, marginación y justicia en América Latina, siglos XIX y XX. (Guadalajara: Universidad de Guadalajara, 2021). ISBN: 978-607-571-38 8 - 5. OPEN ACCESS.

 

(SOurce: http://www.publicaciones.cucsh.udg.mx/kiosko/2021/El%20rescate%20de%20la%20memoria%202021.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2SetlWk9LmnWXG3tBvY2Hb_lUe7wVxjxxzFDJ-PnJTlHxwmccjGKkKu10)

 Reforma penitenciaria en tiempos de epidemias. Finanzas e higienismo tras algunas de las primeras construcciones penitenciarias argentinas (1867-1895) Luis González Alvo

Huelgas y motines en las cárceles montevideanas durante las primeras décadas del siglo XX Daniel Fessler

Identidades de tela y papel. La indumentaria de reas y reos en la Penitenciaría de Escobedo de Guadalajara (1867-1912) Beatriz Bastarrica Mora

Dura Lex. El ceremonial de la muerte en la casa colorada Jorge Alberto Trujillo Bretón

En las penumbras del poder: Reflexiones sobre poder discrecional en Lima y Callao, 1890s–1910s Luz E. Huertas Castillo

Policía y cuerpos de seguridad en el Jalisco decimonónico: desarrollo de sus estructuras y objetivos Sebastián Porfirio Herrera Guevara 

“Para que se eduque y sea hombre de bien” Maternidad y cuidados en las cartas solicitud de ingreso a la Escuela de Artes y Oficios de Jalisco, 1866-1910 Verónica González Villalobos

“En el sitio mismo del crimen” El reconocimiento médico en los casos de homicidio en Jalisco, siglo XIX Laura Benítez Barba

Suicidio y sensibilidades en la prensa de la Guadalajara de inicios del siglo XX Miguel Ángel Isais Contreras

¡Esta noche hay buen rock! Juventud, baile y moral sexual (Guadalajara, 1957-1965) David Moreno Gaona

Entre casta, raza y clase: un discurso sobre la negridad en Córdoba, Argentina Marcos Javier Carrizo

¿Elementos indeseables y antisanitarios? Entre la criminalización científico-sanitaria y la persecución policial de la inmigración china durante el desarrollo de la política inmigratoria en Cuba (1902-1935) Dayron Oliva Hernández

“Todo ha terminado…” Fusilamientos y sensacionalismo a través de la revista Vea. Chile, 1945-1955 Marco Antonio León León

Contra os “armazéns do gozo vendido a retalho”: uma história da criminalização das casas de prostituição no Brasil (1890-1915) Raquel Khouri dos Santos Ricardo Sontag

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CALL FOR PAPERS: MPI for European Legal History - 6th Colloquium on Crime and Criminal Justice in Early Modern and Modern Times, 23-25 September 2019 (DEADLINE: 1 May 2019)

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The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History launched a call for papers for its 6th Colloquium on Crime and Criminal Justice in Early Modern and Modern Times. Here the call:

The 6th colloquium focuses on elites in a political, economic, social or cultural context, their role in the administration of justice and the legal system as well as specific forms of deviance and delinquency of such groups.

While recent studies have addressed violent crime of elites (e.g. feuds and duels) or the involvement of elites in white-collar crimes, the conference aims to also address further potential fields of research in order to gain comparative perspectives on the role and function of elites in the history of crime and criminal justice.

Please send a one-page abstract (max 300 words, German or English) with the title of the presentation and a brief summary of the content along with a short CV (one page) in one PDF file. In the case of panel proposals please send an abstract of the panel topic (max 200 words) together with abstracts of the individual presentations (max 300 words) and the corresponding short CVs in one PDF file as well. The presentations should not exceed 20 minutes and can be given in German or English.

The deadline for proposals is 1st May 2019.

For further information, please see Call 2019.

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BOOK: Anne-Marie KILDAY, Crime in Scotland 1660-1960 – The Violent North [History of Crime in the UK and Ireland] (London: Routledge, 2018). ISBN 9781843929451, £115.00

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Routledge is publishing a book on the history of crime in Scotland between the mid-17^th and mid-20^th century next month. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Scotland has often been regarded throughout history as "the violent north", but how true is this statement? Does Scotland deserve to be defined thus, and upon what foundations is this definition based? This book examines the history of crime in Scotland, questioning the labelling of Scotland as home to a violent culture and examining changes in violent behaviour over time, the role of religion on violence, how gender impacted on violence and how the level of Scottish violence fares when compared to incidents of violence throughout the rest of the UK.

This book offers a ground-breaking contribution to the historiography of Scottish crime. Not only does the piece illuminate for the first time, the nature and incidence of Scottish criminality over the course of some three hundred years, but it also employs a more integrated analysis of gender than has hitherto been evident. This book sheds light on whether the stereotypical label given to Scotland as 'the violent north' is appropriate or in any way accurate, and it further contributes to our understanding of not only Scottish society, but of the history of crime and punishment in the British Isles and beyond.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Anne-Marie Kilday is Professor of Criminal History and Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean at Oxford Brookes University, UK

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Violent North - Fact or Fiction: Introduction and Context

1. The Violent North? Fatal Violence, 1660-1960

2. The Violent North? Sexual Violence, 1660-1960

3. The Violent North? Violent Assault: Public and Private, 1660-1960

4. The Violent North? Communal Violence, 1660-1960

5. The Violent North? Violence for Gain, 1660-1960

6. The Violent North or The Enterprising Scot, 1660-1960?

The Violent North: Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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BOOK: David NASH and Anne-Marie KILDAY, Murder and Mayhem - Crime in Twentieth-Century Britain (London: Routledge, 2018). ISBN 9781137290434, €22.99

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Routledge has just published a book on crime in 20^th century Britain

ABOUT THE BOOK

This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide to racial hate crime, from incest to anarchism, from gangs to the death penalty. Pulling together a wide range of literature, David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday reveal the evolution of attitudes towards criminality and the law over the course of the twentieth century. Highlighting important periods of change and development that have shaped the overall history of crime in Britain, the authors provide in-depth analysis and explanation of each theme.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

ANNE-MARIE KILDAY is Principal Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She researches and publishes on the history of violent crime and the history of female criminality since the early modern period.

DAVID NASH is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He has published extensively in the areas of the history of blasphemy, blasphemous libel and religious crime for over fifteen years. He is also author of Cultures of Shame: Exploring Crime and Morality in Britain 1650-1900 with Anne-Marie Kilday, with whom he co-edited Histories of Crime: Britain 1600-2000.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Britain in the Twentieth Century, David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday

Britain's Most 'Wanted': Homicide and Serial Murder since 1900, Anne-Marie Kilday

Serious Property Offending in the Twentieth Century, Lucy Williams and Barry Godfrey

Racial Hate Crime in Britain, David Nash.- Offences Against Children: Incest and Child Sexual Abuse, Kim Stevenson

Anarchism, Assassination and Terrorism in Modern Britain, Johannes Dillinger

‘Hope I Die Before I Get Too Old’: Social Rebellion and Social Diseases, Clifford Williamson

Organised Crime, Criminality and the ‘Gangster', Heather Shore

Punishment: The Death Penalty and Incarceration, Helen Johnston

Law Enforcement: Policies and Perspectives, Neil Davie

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A. HONDEGHEM, X. ROUSSEAUX & F. SCHOENAERS (eds.), Modernisation of the Criminal Justice Chain and the Judicial System [Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, ed. M. SELLERS & J. MAXEINER], Heidelberg/New York: Springer, 2016. XVIII + 275 p. ISBN 9783319258027. € 99,99

 

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Springer published a collective work on "Criminal Justice and the Judicial System" (eds. A. Hondeghem, X. Rousseaux & F. Schoenaers), from an interdisciplinary and historical perspective in the series Ius Gentium. Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (eds. M. Sellers & J. Maxeiner).

Description:

This book focuses on one part of the judicial system: the criminal justice chain. This involves all the activities and actors dealing with policing, prosecution, judgment, and sanctioning of crimes. In the last decades, reforms have been implemented in several European countries. In Belgium, for example, there was the so-called Octopus reform in 1998. The police was restructured, leading to an integration of the police forces on a national and local level.  New steering instruments were introduced, such as regional security plans. With regard to the sanctioning of crimes, a new institution was installed, called the sentence implementation court. This book evaluates these reforms and discusses the current reform on the reorganization of the judicial landscape. In addition, it examines the relation between trust and distrust and the application to the judicial system. It discusses the human capital aspect of the system, by means of a study on the prosopography of the Belgian magistrates that analyses the Magistracy as socio-professional group, and focuses on situations of system building, transformations under constraint (occupations), and transfers (colonial experience). Lastly, the book presents a comparative study of Belgium and France regarding the new techniques and instruments that are needed to accelerate the judicial response time and to ensure that the judicial system delivers its services on time.​

 Contents:

From Octopus to the Reorganisation of the Judicial Landscape in Belgium (A. Hondeghem et al). (3-18)
Indicators or Incentives? Some Thoughts on the Use of the Penal Response Rate for Measuring the Activity of Public Prosecutors’ Offices in France (1999–2010)(C. Mouhanna et al.) (19-35)
Different Methods, Same Results as French Criminal Courts Try to Meet Contradictory Policy Demands (V. Gautron) (37-50)
The Position of the Public Prosecution Service in the New Swiss Criminal Justice Chain (D. Kettiger et al.) (51-64)
 Do Statistics Reinforce Administrative Centralisation? The Contradictory Influence of Quantified Indicators on French National Police (A.-C. Douillet et al.) (65-77)
From Justice Archipelago to Security and Justice Chain: Strategy-Organisation Configurations in the Dutch Criminal Justice System (S. Zouridis et al.) (79-93)
The Concepts of Trust and Distrust in the Belgian Criminal Justice Chain (J. Vanschoenwinkel et al.) (97-113)
Intra- and Interorganisational Trust in a Judicial Context: An Exploratory Case Study (M. Callens et al.) (115-130)
Managing the ‘Overall Integrated Security Policy’ at the Local Level: An Analysis of Inter-institutional Dialogue (A. Croquet et al.) (131-144)
Visible and Invisible Sentencing (N. Hutton) (145-158)
Making Sense or/of Decisions? Collective Action in Early Release Process (J. Bastard et al.) (159-172)
Prosopography, Crisis and Modernisation of Justice—“Belgian Magistrates”: An Introduction (X. Rousseaux) (175-180)
Prosopography in the Digital Age: Current Situation, Prospects and Perspectives in the Light of the Forthcoming “Belgian Magistrates” Application (A. François et al.) (181-193)
Conflicts, Tensions and Solidarity Within the Judicial District: A Socio-Professional Study of the Judiciary of the “Belgian” Departments Under the French Directory (1795–1799) (E. Berger) (195-210)
Magistrates of Congo (1885–1960): Prosopography and Biography as Combined Tools for the Study of the Colonial Judicial Body (L. Montel et al.) (211-232)
Belgian Magistrates and German Occupiers: A Diachronic Comparison (1914–1918/1940–1944) (M. Bost et al.) (233-260)
Prosopography, History and Legal Anthropology: Two Comments on the Belgian Case (J.-C. Farcy et al.) (261-275)

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BOOK: "Emozioni, crimine e giustizia. Un'indagine storico-giuridica fra Otto e Novecento" by Emilia Musumeci (November 2015)

Emilia Musumeci

Emozioni, crimine e giustizia. Un'indagine storico-giuridica fra Otto e Novecento

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Interrogarsi oggi sul rapporto tra crimine ed emozioni vuol dire non solo comprendere qual è il ruolo che ha svolto e continua a svolgere l’emotività dentro e fuori i tribunali ma anche se è possibile adoperare le “vecchie” categorie del diritto penale per fronteggiare le nuove sfide della contemporaneità.

Relegati nell'alveo dell'irrazionale o del patologico emozioni, sentimenti e passioni quali odio, disgusto, onore, vergogna, empatia fino ad alcuni anni addietro sembravano destinati ad essere considerati irrilevanti per il diritto penale, improntato ai valori di stampo illuministico, che hanno totalmente permeato tale disciplina in ogni suo aspetto a partire dalle scelte di politica criminale, dalla valutazione concreta dell'agire criminoso fino alla comminazione della sanzione penale da parte del giudice. 

CONFERENCE: "La morte nel prisma criminale (19th-20th centuries)" (Benevento, September 21-22 2015)

WHAT La morte nel prisma criminale (19th-20th centuries), Conference

WHEN September 21-22 2015

WHERE Conference hall, Piazza Arechi II —Palazzo De Simone, University of Sannio, Law Faculty, Benevento

Organizzato in collaborazione con il Centro di studi e ricerche per la storia della giustizia criminale dell’Università di Bologna, l’incontro si propone di indagare il modo in cui tra Ottocento e Novecento la cultura giuridica, tra legislazione, dottrina e giurisprudenza, ha affrontato il tema della morte con particolare riferimento alla prospettiva del diritto penale, con interventi che andranno dalla pena di morte e le pene alternative ad essa all’eutanasia, dalla violenza di massa alla giustizia di transizione, dai crimini contro l’umanità e quelli contro i cadaveri ai profili processuali della morte dell’imputato e al suicidio  

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BOOK: "Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400-1500 ", by Karl Shoemaker

Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400-1500, by Karl Shoemaker, (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400–1500 rethinks the history of sanctuary protections for criminals in the Western legal tradition. From the twilight of the Roman Empire until the sixteenth century, every major medieval legal tradition afforded protections to fugitive criminals who took sanctuary in churches. Sanctuary-seeking criminals might have been required to perform penance or go into exile, but they were guaranteed immunity from corporal and capital punishment. In the sixteenth century, sanctuary protections were abolished throughout Europe, uprooting an ancient tradition and replacing it with a new set of juridical arguments about law, crime, and the power to punish.

JOURNAL: "Law, Crime and History" volume 5, issue 1 (2015)

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Law, Crime and History Volume 5 Issue 1 (2015) - All information here

SPECIAL EDITION: OUR CRIMINAL PAST - CARING FOR THE FUTURE

Guest Editors: Heather Shore and Helen Johnston

Preface: Barry Godfrey, 1-4

Introduction:

Heather Shore and Helen Johnston, ‘Thinking about the Future of Our Criminal Past’, 5-11

Digital Histories of Crime

Sharon Howard, ‘Bloody Code: Reflecting on a Decade of the Old Bailey Online and the Digital Futures of Our Criminal Past’, 12-24

Hamish Maxwell Stewart, Matthew Cracknell, and Kris Inwood, ‘Height, Crime and Colonial History’, 25-42

Blogging Crime Histories

Lucy Williams, ‘Writing Wayward Women: Why Blog the History of Victorian England’s Female Offenders?’ 43-53

Helen Rogers, ‘Blogging Our Criminal Past: Social Media, Public Engagement and Creative History’, 54-76

Teaching Digital History

CONFERENCE & CFP: "Anti-Democratic Ideology and Criminal Law under Fascist, National Socialist and Authoritarian Regimes" (London, 10-11 September 2015)

WHAT: Anti-Democratic Ideology and Criminal Law under Fascist, National Socialist and Authoritarian Regimes, conference and call for papers

WHERE: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London

WHEN: 10^th - 11^th September 2015

Convenor: Dr Stephen Skinner, Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Exeter

S.J.Skinner@exeter.ac.uk

Outline and Call for Papers

The Fascist, National Socialist and other forms of authoritarian regimes that emerged in the twentieth century used criminal law as a key component of their repressive and social control strategies. Criminal law was both an instrument in such regimes’ exertion of power, and a medium through which their core ideologies were expressed and could be identified. Although such regimes were not merely negative movements grounded on opposition to other political forces, many of them included elements of anti-democratic ideology in the formulation, application and interpretation of criminal law. This involved rejecting concepts identified with liberal democracy, and purporting to overcome their inadequacies. Whereas for some regimes such as Fascism and National Socialism this was an explicit, self-declared component of their identity, for others anti-democratic ideology was arguably more implicit in their turn away from liberal methods and models of criminal law.

This conference invites participants to question the nature and extent of anti-democratic ideology in criminal law under Fascist, National Socialist and other authoritarian regimes during the 20th century. Although the primary focus is intended to be on Fascism, National Socialism and similar systems in Europe, proposals for papers adopting a comparative approach to criminal law under communism, or to experiences in other parts of the world, will also be considered. Key themes for discussion could include, but are not limited to:

BOOK: "Abuse or Punishment? Violence toward Children in Quebec Families, 1850-1969", by Marie-Aimée Cliche (2014)

Abuse or Punishment? Violence toward Children in Quebec Families, 1850-1969, by Marie-Aimée Cliche, translated by W. Donald Wilson. The book is part of the Press's Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada Series, Wilfred Laurier University Press. 

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At one time, the use of corporal punishment by parents in child-rearing was considered normal, but in the second half of the nineteenth century this begin to change, in Quebec as well as the rest of the Western world. It was during this period that the extent of ill-treatment inflicted on children—treatment once excused as good child-rearing practice—was discovered.

This book analyzes both the advice provided to parents and the different forms of child abuse within families. Cliche derives her information from family magazines, reports and advice columns in newspapers, people’s life stories, the records of the Montreal Juvenile Court, and even comic strips. Two dates are given particular focus: 1920, with the trial of the parents of Aurore Gagnon, which sensitized the public to the phenomenon of “child martyrs;” and 1940, with the advent of the New Education movement, which was based on psychology rather than strict discipline and religious doctrine.

There has always been child abuse. What has changed is society’s sensitivity to it. That is why defenders of children’s rights call for the repeal of Section 43 of the Canadian Criminal Code, which authorizes “reasonable” corporal punishment. Abuse or Punishment? considers not only the history of violence toward children in Quebec but the history of public perception of this violence and what it means for the rest of Canada.