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Murder scenes : normality, deviance, and criminal violence in Weimar Berlin
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Murder scenes : normality, deviance, and criminal violence in Weimar Berlin / Sace Elder.
ISBN
9780472117246 (cloth : alk. paper)
0472117246 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010.
Physical Description
ix, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2010
Series
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"Life has recently become cheap" : murder, moral panic, and the uncertainty of normality
"The untrained gaze of the layperson" : the murder investigation
"She preferred staying with him to dying of hunger" : the Carl Grossmann sexual murder case
"A children's paradise" : crime and community in West Berlin
"What does Langu mean?" : solving murder and dissolving community in Prenzlauer Berg
"A marriage no better and no worse than many others" : domestic homicide, gender, and everyday violence
Conclusion: Violence and normality in Weimar Germany.
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