GHI | Richard Wetzell

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Dr.
Richard F. Wetzell

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B.A., Swarthmore College, 1984; M.A., Columbia University, 1985.
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1991.
Research Fellow since 2000; since 2002 also Editor of the GHI Bulletin.

Adjunct Associate Professor, BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University

Current Research Project
"The Politics of Punishment in Modern Germany: Reforming Criminal Justice, 1880-1945".

Areas of Interest
History of law, science and politics in modern Germany; intellectual and cultural history; history of medicine; history of sexuality.

Selected Publications

Books

Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Edited Collections

Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective, co-edited with Peter Becker (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Special issue “Sexuality in Modern German History,” German History, vol. 23, issue 3 (Fall 2005), guest-edited by Edward R. Dickinson and Richard F. Wetzell.
Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany (in preparation for 2009)

Articles and Chapters

“Criminology in Weimar and Nazi Germany.” In Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective, edited by Peter Becker and Richard F. Wetzell, 401-423. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
(with Peter Becker) “Criminals and Their Scientists: Introduction.” In Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective, edited by Peter Becker and Richard Wetzell, 1-22. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
(with Edward R. Dickinson) “The Historiography of Sexuality in Modern Germany”. German History 23 (2005): 291-305.
"From Retributive Justice to Social Defense: Penal Reform in Fin-de-Siècle Germany." In Germany at the Fin de Siècle: Culture, Politics, and Ideas, edited by Suzanne Marchand and David Lindenfeld, 59-77. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
“Kriminalbiologische Forschung an der Deutschen Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie in der Weimarer Republik und im Nationalsozialismus.” In Rassenforschung an Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten vor und nach 1933, edited by Hans-Walter Schmuhl, 68-98. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2003.
“Penal Reform in Modern Germany, 1880-1945.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 28 (Spring 2001): 83-89.
"The Medicalization of Criminal Law Reform in Imperial Germany." In Institutions of Confinement: Hospitals, Asylums and Prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1950, edited by Norbert Finzsch and Robert Jütte, 275-284. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.