Mad and Bad in Imperial Berlin - Detailseite

The course will examine the ensemble of actors, institutions, and policies that were deployed in dealing with criminal lunatics in Imperial Berlin. In exploring what it meant to be designated criminally insane, it will consider the different institutional 'receptacles' for criminal lunatics, the statutory contexts and administrative protocols that regulated their lives, as well as the psychiatric, juridical, and penal practices designed to normalize their polymorphic/polysemous deviance. Students will study the tensions and conflicting agendas that characterized forensic-psychiatric governance along the thresholds between law, psychiatry, social welfare, and public order.

The class will be conducted in English, but students will read primary, German-language source documents. Therefore students MUST be conversant in both languages.

Oosterhuis, Harry, and Arlie Loughnan. „Madness and Crime: Historical Perspectives on Forensic Psychiatry.“ International Journal of Law and Psychiatry  (2014): 1-16.

Gibson, Mary. „Global Perspectives on the Birth of the Prison.“ American Historical Review 116.4 (2011): 1040-1063.

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