Author: Sace Elder, Department of History, Eastern Illinois University - Academia.edu

Contents:

	Introduction (p. 1)
	Chapter 1 "Life has recently become cheap": Murder, Moral Panic, and the Uncertainty of Normality (p. 16)
	Chapter 2 "The untrained gaze of the layperson": The Murder Investigation (p. 45)
	Chapter 3 "She preferred staying with him to dying of hunger": The Carl Grossmann Sexual Murder Case (p. 81)
	Chapter 4 "A children's paradise"2: Crime and Community in West Berlin (p. 107)
	Chapter 5 "What does Langu mean?" Solving Murder and Dissolving Community in Prenzlauer Berg (p. 130)
	Chapter 6 "A marriage no better and no worse than many others": Domestic Homicide, Gender, and Everyday Violence (p. 157)
	Conclusion: Violence and Normality in Weimar Germany (p. 190)
	Notes (p. 199)
	Bibliography (p. 241)
	Index (p. 261)

Description: »Sace Elder has exhaustively researched both newspaper and other popular and professional treatments of murder cases and archival sources of police investigations and trials in Berlin between 1919 and 1931. Murder Scenes is an innovative and insightful exploration of the ways in which these investigations and trials, and the publicity surrounding them, reflected and shaped changing notions of normality and deviance in Weimar-era Berlin.« (Source: University of Michigan Press)

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