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 : Herbert HART, Le Droit, la liberté et la morale, (Classiques Garnier, Paris, 2021), ISBN : 978-2-4061-1299-0, pp. 301, 29,00€

 

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A propos de l'ouvrage : 

Plaidant pour la dépénalisation de l’homosexualité, H. L. A. Hart préconise, dans Le Droit, la liberté et la morale (dont la première édition, anglaise, date de 1963), de limiter l’action du droit pénal à la répression des actes qui nuisent à autrui. La Moralité du droit pénal dénonce la médicalisation progressive du traitement de la délinquance.

A propos de l'auteur : 

Herbert Hart était Titulaire de la chaire de Jurisprudence à l’Université d’Oxford de 1952 à 1968 et il a notamment écrit les ouvrages suivant : The Concept of Law, Causation in the Law, Law Liberty and Morality... 

Table des matières : 

Préface p7-9

Note sur la présentation du texte p11

Le Droit, la Liberté et la Morale

Préface de 1963  p15-16

Note de l’auteur (tirage de 1969) p17

Préface de 1981 p19-25

I. La mise en œuvre de la morale par le droit p27-44

II. Us et abus du recours aux exemples p45-64

III. Diverses formes de mise en œuvre p65-84

Conclusion p85-86

La moralité du Droit pénal

I. Évolution des conceptions de la responsabilité p89-115

II. La mise en œuvre de la morale p117-140

Un libéralisme sans les droits naturels, la philosophie politique de H.L.A Hart

Abréviations des titres des travaux de H.L.A. Hart p143

Introduction p145-160

I. Libéralisme et « positivisme critique » p161-196

II. Des principes de morale critique en lieu des droit naturels p197-230

III. Dépasser les limites de l’analyse utilitariste p231-271

Conclusion p273-275 

Bibliographie p277-288

Index des noms p289-291

Index thématique p293-295

Table des matières p297-301

BOOK: Gregory J. DURSTON, Jacks, Knaves and Vagabonds: Crime, Law, and Order in Tudor England (Sherfield on London: Waterside Press, 2020). ISBN 9781909976764, pp. 736, £39.95

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK

In this welcome addition to his Crime History Series, Gregory Durston points to the lack of design and short-term expediency that typified Tudor law and order. But he also detects an emergent criminal justice system amidst royal patronage, protection, and the influence of wealthy magnates. Students of English history will have heard how benefit of clergy and the ‘neck verse’ might avoid a hanging, but what of other stratagems such as down-valuing stolen goods, cruentation, chance medley, pious perjury or John at Death (a non-existent culprit blamed by the accused and treated by juries as real); all devices used to mitigate the all-pervading death-for-felony rule. Together with other artifices deployed by courts to circumvent black-letter law the author also describes how poor, marginalised and illiterate citizens were those most likely to suffer unfairness, injustice and draconian punishment. He also describes the political intrigue and widescale corruption that were symptomatic of the era, alongside such diverse aspects as forfeiture of property, evidential ploys, the rise of the highwayman, religious persecution, witchcraft and infanticide crazes. At a time of shifting allegiances — and as Crown, church, judges, magistrates and officials wrestled over jurisdiction, central or local control, ‘ungodly customs’, laws of convenience or malleable definitions — never perhaps were facts or law so expertly engineered to justify or defend often curious outcomes.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gregory J Durston is a barrister-at-law who has taught in law schools in England and Japan. He was for many years Reader in Law at Kingston University, Surrey and is currently an adjunct professor at Southern Cross University School of Law and Justice, New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of Fields, Fens and Felonies and Whores and Highwaymen (both Waterside Press).

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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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CONFERENCE: British Crime Historians (BCH) Symposium (31st August-1st September 2018, Edge Hill University)

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The biennial British Crime Historians Symposium is being held next month at Edge Hill University.

British Crime Historians (BCH) Symposium

31st August – 1st September 2018
Edge Hill University

In 2018 it will be a decade since the first British Crime Historians Symposium was held. This biennial conference meets every two years as a forum for discussion, debate and the presentation of research for all aspects of the history of crime, law, justice, punishment and social regulation. It has become one of the most significant regular events in these research fields.

Previous events (organised by the British Crime Historians Network) have been held at Leeds, Sheffield, Milton Keynes (OU), Liverpool and Edinburgh. This year the event is supported by ICE and will take place at Edge Hill University’s Ormskirk Campus.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers are:

Professor Eamonn Carrabine (University of Essex)
‘Reading Pictures: Art History and the Sociology of Punishment’

Professor Ian Burney (University of Manchester)
‘Spatters and Lies: Forensic Cultures in the Sheppard Murder Trials, 1954-1966’

For further information please contact Professor Alyson Brown browna@edgehill.ac.uk or Dr Alana Barton bartona@edgehill.ac.uk

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The 2-day conference will take place at Edge Hill University, in Ormskirk, north of Liverpool, UK. It is a residential conference, i.e. accommodation is available on campus.

Dates: 31st August – 1st September 2018

Venue:  Edge Hill University (Directions)

Registration: please click here to register

More information, as well as the full programme, can be found on the conference page.

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  

Program

CONFERENCE & CFP: "Crime and Gender 1600-1900. Comparative perspectives" (Leiden, November 27 – 28, 2015)

WHAT Crime and Gender 1600-1900. Comparative perspectives, International Conference

WHEN November 27 – 28, 2015

WHERE University of Leiden, Netherlands

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Historians and criminologists have often assumed that gender differences in recorded crime were static over time and that women were in general less likely to commit crime than men. The starting point of this conference is that there exists discontinuity rather than continuity in the participation of men and women in criminality. Given the evidence of high female crime rates in the past, there is a need for a long-term and comparative historical approach to crime and gender. This conference aims at developing comparative historical studies that will help explaining gender differences in crime in various settings, within and beyond Europe.

 Papers on the following subjects are welcome:

• How violent were men and women between 1600 and 1900?
• How can we explain fundamental changes in the prosecution of women’s crime (such as the decline of 'female crime' and the 'criminalization of men')?
• How can we explain regional and global variations in female crime rates between 1600 and 1900?
• In what ways did migration and household systems play a role in the crimes of men and women?
• How did crime, space and gender relate?
• How were crimes of men and women perceived by the media before ca.1920?

Researchers interested in participating in the conference are invited to send their abstracts (c. 500 words) before 1 July 2015 to the organizers Manon van der Heijden (m.p.c.van.der.heijden@hum.leidenuniv.nl) and Marion Pluskota (m.pluskota@hum.leidenuniv.nl)

 Candidates will be informed of the selection by 15 July 2015. Selected participants are expected to send their full paper to the organizers by 10 November 2015 to be circulated in advance among the participants.

 After review, the papers presented at the conference will be taken into consideration as chapters for a collective book series on crime and gender or a special issue, to be published in 2016. Travel costs and accommodation will be provided.

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

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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

PHD STUDENTSHIP: "Race, crime and justice in the UK since 1939" (Dundee, 2015-2018)

WHAT: Phd Studentship in History of race, crime and justice in the UK since 1939

WHEN: September 2015 to September 2018

WHERE: University of Dundee, School of Humanities

Deadline for application 15 April 2015

Applications are invited for a doctoral studentship on the history of race, crime and justice in the United Kingdom. The studentship is for three years from the 2015/16 academic year (September 2015 to September 2018). The successful applicant will be supported in developing a programme of original research that advances historical understanding of the relationship between race, racial identity, and the criminal justice system from 1939 to the present day. Some themes that may be explored include police-community relations, the racialisation of crime, media representations of race and criminality, and the work of racial minorities within police forces. The project will be supervised by Dr. Zoe Colley in the History programme.

SEMINAR: "Le délit politique de sorcellerie en Angleterre sous Elisabeth 1ère et Jacques 1er" (Paris, 5 March 2015)

WHAT: Le délit politique de sorcellerie en Angleterre  sous Elisabeth 1ère et Jacques 1er, meeting within the seminar Le délit politique

WHERE: Paris, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Centre d'études des normes juridiques Yan Thomas - CENJ, 105 bd. Raspail, salle 7

WHEN: 5 March 2015, 3:00 - 5:00

Speaker
Pier Giuseppe Monateri,  Professeur de droit privé comparé à l'Université de Turin

CONFERENCE: "Crime Historians Conference" (Liverpool 15-16 June 2015)

WHAT: Crime Historians Conference

WHERE: Department of Social Science, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool

WHEN: 15-16 June 2015

deadline  27^th March 2015

The Department of Social Science, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Liverpool Hope University is pleased to announce the call for papers for the first of a series of crime historians conferences.

We are inviting proposals for 20-minute papers and panels of 3-4 papers on any area of crime history. Papers are particularly welcome that address the theme of interdisciplinary crime history, or which draw on interdisciplinary methods.

Abstracts (300 words) and a brief biography should be sent to the conference organiser, Dr John Walliss (wallisj@hope.ac.uk), by the closing date of 27^th March 2015.

The conference fee, including accommodation and meals (inc. the conference dinner) will be £160. There are day-rates available as well as discounted rates for postgraduate students.

JOURNAL: "Law, Crime and History" (vol. 4 issue 3, 2014)

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Editorial

Articles

Colin R. Moore and Gerry R. Rubin,  Civilian Detective Doctrine in the 1930s and its Transmission to the Military Police in 1940-42, 1-30

David E. Ruth,‘Our Free Society is Worthy of Better’: Caryl Chessman, Capital Punishment, 

and Cold War Culture, 31-55

Robert S. Shiels, The Structure of Authority and the Prosecution of Crime in the Sheriff Courts of Mid-Victorian Scotland, 56-73 

Debate Forum

Ian Marsh,Conceptualising Media Representations of Crime and Justice within Historical and Contemporary Criminology, 74-83

BOOK: "Crime, Courtrooms and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1700-1850", edited by David Lemmings

Crime, Courtrooms and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1700-1850, edited by David Lemmings,  University of Adelaide, Australia

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Modern criminal courts are characteristically the domain of lawyers, with trials conducted in an environment of formality and solemnity, where facts are found and legal rules are impartially applied to administer justice. Recent historical scholarship has shown that in England lawyers only began to appear in ordinary criminal trials during the eighteenth century, however, and earlier trials often took place in an atmosphere of noise and disorder, where the behaviour of the crowd - significant body language, meaningful looks, and audible comment - could influence decisively the decisions of jurors and judges. 

This collection of essays considers this transition from early scenes of popular participation to the much more orderly and professional legal proceedings typical of the nineteenth century, and links this with another important shift, the mushroom growth of popular news and comment about trials and punishments which occurred from the later seventeenth century. It hypothesizes that the popular participation which had been a feature of courtroom proceedings before the mid-eighteenth century was not stifled by ‘lawyerization’, but rather partly relocated to the ‘public sphere’ of the press, partly because of some changes connected with the work of the lawyers.

Ranging from the early 1700s to the mid-nineteenth century, and taking account of criminal justice proceedings in Scotland, as well as England, the essays consider whether pamphlets, newspapers, ballads and crime fiction provided material for critical perceptions of criminal justice proceedings, or alternatively helped to convey the official ‘majesty’ intended to legitimize the law. In so doing the volume opens up fascinating vistas upon the cultural history of Britain’s legal system over the ‘long eighteenth century'.

David Lemmings was born in London and educated at the Universities of Sussex, London and Oxford before coming to Australia as a Research Fellow of the University of Adelaide in 1987. He then moved to the University of Newcastle in 1990 where he became Head of the Department of History in 1998 and Associate Professor in History in 2000. In 2008, Professor Lemmings moved to the University of Adelaide where he is Professor of History and leader of the Change Program in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

BOOK: "Crime, Gender and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century England", by Tammy C. Whitlock

Crime, Gender and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century England, by Tammy C. Whitlock, University of Kentucky, USA

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Whilst the actual origins of English consumer culture are a source of much debate, it is clear that the nineteenth century witnessed a revolution in retailing and consumption. Mass production of goods, improved transport facilities and more sophisticated sales techniques brought consumerism to the masses on a scale previously unimaginable. Yet with this new consumerism came new problems and challenges. 

Focusing on retailing in nineteenth-century Britain, this book traces the expansion of commodity culture and a mass consumer orientated market, and explores the wider social and cultural implications this had for society. Using trial records, advertisements, newspaper reports, literature, and popular ballads, it analyses the rise, criticism, and entrenchment of consumerism by looking at retail changes around the period 1800-1880 and society's responses to them. By viewing this in the context of what had gone before Professor Whitlock emphasizes the key role women played in this evolution, and argues that the dazzling new world of consumption had beginnings that predate the later English, French and American department store cultures. It also challenges the view that women were helpless consumers manipulated by merchants' use of colour, light and display into excessive purchases, or even driven by their desires into acts of theft. 

Tammy C. Whitlock is Professor of the Department of History at the University of Kentucky, USA

JOURNAL: Law crime and History, vol. 4,issue 2