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Murder scenes : normality, deviance, and criminal violence in Weimar Berlin /

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Main Author: Elder, Sace
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010]
Series:Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
Subjects:
Community life > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century.
Crime > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century.
Violence > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century.
Deviant behavior > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century.
Homicide > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century.
Murder > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century.
Germany > Social conditions > 1918-1933.
Germany > History > 1918-1933.
Berlin (Germany) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.