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Author:

Elder, Sace.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

ix, 266 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Murder--Berlin--Berlin--History--20th century.
Homicide--Berlin--Berlin--History--20th century.
Deviant behavior--Berlin--Berlin--History--20th century.
Violence--Berlin--Berlin--History--20th century.
Crime--Berlin--Berlin--History--20th century.
Community life--Berlin--Berlin--History--20th century.
Berlin (Germany)--Social conditions--20th century.
Germany--History--1918-1933.
Germany--Social conditions--1918-1933.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-260) 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.

Series:

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.

ISBN:

0472117246 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780472117246 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)466344611

LCCN:

2009050348

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)