Death in the Tiergarten - Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaisers Berlin

Informationen zum Autor Benjamin Carter Hett is Assistant Professor of History at Hunter College, City University of New York. Klappentext From Alexanderplatz! the bustling Berlin square ringed by bleak slums! to Moabit! site of the city's most feared prison! this book illuminates the culture of criminal justice in late imperial Germany. Hett explores the lawyers! judges! jurors! thieves! pimps! and murderers who inhabited this world and examines how the law reflected the broader urban culture and politics of a rapidly changing city. Zusammenfassung From Alexanderplatz, the bustling Berlin square, to Moabit, site of the city’s most feared prison, this book illuminates the culture of criminal justice in late imperial Germany. Hett explores the individuals who inhabited this world and examines how the law reflected the broader urban culture and politics of a rapidly changing city.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Carter Hett, Hett Benjamin Carter
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2004
• EAN: 9780674013179
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01317-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, History: specific events & topics, European History, Germany, LAW / Criminal Law / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Criminal law & procedure, History: specific events and topics, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, Criminal law: procedure and offences