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Subject: CFP: History of Criminology - Florence (x-post H-GERMAN)
Date: Saturday, April 19, 1997 16:15:44 MET


CALL FOR PAPERS

THE CRIMINAL AND HIS SCIENTISTS: A SYMPOSIUM ON THE HISTORY OF CRIMINOLOGY

Conference at the European University Institute in Florence, October 1998 organized by Peter Becker (GHI/EUI) and Richard Wetzell (Univ. of Maryland)

This conference is designed to bring together colleagues from Europe, the Americas, and Asia who are working on projects relating to the history of criminology. With this call for papers we would like to invite scholars working in the history of criminology and related fields to submit proposals for individual papers that would fit into the conference agenda outlined below.

1. CRIMINOLOGICAL DISCOURSES AND THEIR INSTITUTIONALIZATION.

The conference will focus on the criminological discussions of the turn of the century. It will seek to reconstruct these discussions by analyzing the different positions and schools of research, but also examine the institutionalization of the criminological discourses. Our conference will address the reception of Lombroso, the development of criminal anthropology, criminal sociology and criminal biology, but also the history of criminological conferences, periodicals, exhibits and criminological institutes.

2. THE PRE-HISTORY OF CRIMINOLOGY.

This part of the conference will not just expand on existing approaches, but explore new lines of continuity. In addition to examining the history of moral statistics and forensic psychiatry, we will also look at the relevant writings of practitioners in the police, judiciary and prisons.

3. THE RECEPTION OF LOMBROSO IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE.

In order to place German criminology in its international context, this part of the conference will compare the reception of Lombroso in different legal (and medical) cultures, with special focus on the French, Anglo-American and Spanish/Latin-American cases.

4. CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT.

In this section we propose to go beyond the disciplines most closely associated with criminology -- such as criminal law, sociology, medicine and anthropology -- in order to examine criminology's relations with other disciplines and reform movements, such as penal reform, prison reform, the juvenile court movement, psychiatry, forensic science and literature. Since these contexts shaped the criminological discourse in different legal cultures, we would encourage comparative discussions.

5. RECEPTION AND EFFECTS.

This section will examine the institutional and intellectual consequences of the criminological discussions of the turn of the century. Papers in this section will examine the further development and differentiation of criminological discourses in the Twenties and Thirties, as well as the application of criminological research in police work, prison administration, judicial practice and penal policy.

Final drafts of the papers have to be received by mid-September, one month prior to the conference, and will be circulated ahead of time, so that sessions will allow for a maximum of discussion. Besides sharing their research, participants will thus have the time to give one another feedback, discuss common methodological concerns and, hopefully, generate ideas for new projects. Finally, we hope that these discussions will assist participants in preparing contributions for a coherent conference volume to be published as part of the German Historical Institute series with Cambridge University Press.

Please send an abstract of your proposed paper (of no more than one page) and your address, fax, and e-mail to one or both of the organizers by July 31, 1997 by airmail or e-mail at the addresses given below. You will be notified whether your proposal has been accepted by October 15, 1997. At that time we will also provide further details about conference arrangements including funding available for the reimbursement of travel expenses.

Dr. Peter Becker Dr. Richard Wetzell
German Historical Institute Dept. of History
1607 New Hampshire Ave., NW University of Maryland
Washington, DC 20009, USA College Park, MD 20742-7315, USA
Tel.: (202) 387.3355 (301) 405.7667
Fax: (202) 483.3430 (301) 314.9399
e-mail: becker@tribeca.ios.com rw77@umail.umd.edu


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