Lovable Crooks and Loathsome Jews: Antisemitism in German and Austrian Crime Writing Before the World Wars
- Submitting institution
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University College London
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 13675
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- McFarland
- ISBN
- 978-1-4766-7012-6
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This study is the result of a 3-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. It is a major study of German and Austrian crime writing and antisemitism in the 20 years before each World War. The book's main focus is on the figure of the 'lovable crook' as described in contemporary crime theory, fiction and press coverage of actual trials, and how and why these texts established that the lovable crook was a quintessential Aryan and antithetical to the Jewish 'criminal'. Archival and other sources include dozens of criminological treatises, hundreds of texts of crime fiction, and thousands of press articles.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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