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Author Hett, Benjamin Carter

Title Death in the Tiergarten : murder and criminal justice in the Kaiser's Berlin / Benjamin Carter Hett
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 291 pages) : illustrations
Contents In Moabit -- The Berlin of Surrogates -- Honorable Men -- Justice Is Blind -- "Were People More Pitiless Fifteen Years Ago?" -- Regimes and Rulers
Summary 'Death in the Tiergarten' provides a detailed account of the judicial system in Berlin at the turn of the 20th century. Far from being rigid & authoritarian, Hett shows how the courts reflected the urban culture & politics of a rapidly evolving city
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-286) and index
Notes English
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Subject Criminal justice, Administration of -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 19th century
Criminal courts -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century
Criminal courts -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 19th century
Trials (Murder) -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century
Trials (Murder) -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 19th century
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
Criminal courts
Criminal justice, Administration of
Trials (Murder)
Moorden.
Strafvervolging.
Germany -- Berlin
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674038615
0674038614
9780674013179
0674013174