Warren Rosenblum Livres

Germany today has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the industrialized world, and social welfare principles play an essential role at all levels of the German criminal justice system. Warren Rosenblum examines the roots of this social approach to criminal policy in the reform movements of the Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, when reformers strove to replace state institutions of control and incarceration with private institutions of protective supervision.Reformers believed that private charities and volunteers could diagnose and treat social pathologies in a way that coercive state institutions could not. The expansion of welfare for criminals set the stage for a more economical system of punishment, Rosenblum argues, but it also opened the door to new, more expansive controls over individuals marked as "asocial." With the reformers' success, the issue of who had power over welfare became increasingly controversial and dangerous. Other historians have suggested that the triump

The book explores Germany's low incarceration rates and the influence of social welfare principles in its criminal justice system. It traces the historical roots of this approach to the reform movements during the Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, highlighting efforts by reformers to shift from state control and incarceration towards private institutions focused on protective supervision. This examination reveals how these historical reforms have shaped contemporary practices in Germany's approach to criminal justice.