Richard Wetzell

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Richard Friedrich Wetzell (born 5 August 1961) is an American historian specializing in German criminology and research fellow at the German Historical Institute.

BornAugust 5, 1961 (age 64)

Alma materSwarthmore College
Stanford University
Columbia University

DisciplineGerman criminology

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Richard Wetzell
Born	(1961-08-05) August 5, 1961 (age 64)

Academic background
Alma mater	Swarthmore College Stanford University Columbia University
Academic work
Discipline	German criminology

He graduated from Swarthmore College and specialized in European history at Columbia University and Stanford University, where he earned a master's degree and doctorate, respectively.^[1]

Selected publications

Wetzell, Richard F. (2000). Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807825358.^[2]
Becker, Peter; Wetzell, Richard F., eds. (2005). Criminals and their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521120739.^[3]
Wetzell, Richard F. (2014). Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany (Studies in German History Book 16). Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781782382461.^[4]

Brückweh, Kerstin; Schumann, Dirk; Wetzell, Richard; Ziemann, Benjamin, eds. (2012). Engineering Society: The Role of the Human and Social Sciences in Modern Societies, 1880-1980. Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 9781349326808.^[5]
Pendas, Devin O.; Roseman, Mark; Wetzell, Richard, eds. (2017). Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780805068108.^[6]

References

[1]
"Richard F. Wetzell". German Historical Institute. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
[2]
Reviews include:
Wakefield, Andre (March 2002). "Richard F. Wetzell. Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880–1945. (Studies in Legal History.) xvi + 348 pp., bibl., index. Chapel Hill/London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. $39.95". Isis. 93 (1): 100–101. doi:10.1086/343270. Alternate URL

Dubber, Markus Dirk (2003). "Reviewed Work: Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945 by Richard F. Wetzell". Law and History Review. 21 (3): 644–647. doi:10.2307/3595135. JSTOR 3595135. S2CID 147473176.
[3]
Reviews include:
Buhagiar, Lawrence (July 2006). "Criminals and their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective. By Peter Becker and Richard Wetzell (eds.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 492pp, £60 hb)". The British Journal of Criminology. 36 (4): 766–769. doi:10.1093/bjc/azl046.

Johansen, Anja (2010). "Becker (Peter) and Wetzell (Richard F.), Criminals and their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 492 pp., ISBN 0-521-81012-4 (PB); 978-0-521-81012-8 (HB)". Crime, History, and Societies. 14 (2): 159–161. doi:10.4000/chs.1230.

Adler, Jeffrey S. (2008). "Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective. Edited by Peter Becker and Richard F. Wetzell (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006) 492 pp. $85.00". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 38 (3): 435–436. doi:10.1162/jinh.2008.38.3.435. S2CID 195826476. Project MUSE

Schwarz, Angela (2009). "Criminals and their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective, edited by Peter Becker and Richard F. Wetzell. German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., and Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii, 492 pp. $85.00 US (cloth)". Canadian Journal of History. 44 (1): 191–193. doi:10.3138/cjh.44.1.191.

Sharma, Avi (2007). "Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective Becker, Peter, and Richard F. Wetzell, eds.: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 492 pp., Publication Date: May 2006". History: Reviews of New Books. 35 (3): 115. doi:10.1080/03612759.2007.10527073. S2CID 141698095.
[4]
Raim, Edith (2015). "Reviewed Work: Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany (Studies in German History 16) by Richard F. Wetzell". VSWG: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte. 102 (4): 530–531. JSTOR 26590616.
[5]
Reviews include:
Ruberg, Willemijn (April 2014). "Boekbespreking Kerstin Brückweh e.a. ed., Engineering society. The role of the human and social sciences in modern societies, 1880-1980 (Palgrave Macmillan; Basingstoke 2012) 336 p., €65,- ISBN 9780230279070". Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis. 127 (1): 164–165. doi:10.5117/TVGESCH2014.1.RUBE.

"Kerstin Brückweh, Dirk Schumann, Richard F. Wetzell, and Benjamin Ziemann, editors. Engineering Society: The Role of the Human and Social Sciences in Modern Societies, 1890–1980.New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. Pp. xii, 318. $95.00". The American Historical Review. 118 (2): 628. April 2013. doi:10.1093/ahr/118.2.628a.
[6]
Reviews include:
Wiesen, S. Jonathan (2019). "Devin O. Pendas, Mark Roseman, and Richard F. Wetzell, eds. Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), xii + 534 pp., hardcover $99.99, paperback $34.99". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 33 (2): 275–277. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcz032.

Rosenhaft, Eve (March 2020). "Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany. Edited by Devin O. Pendas, Mark Roseman, and Richard F. Wetzell. Publications of the German Historical Institute. Edited by Simone Lässig with the assistance of David Lazar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xii+534. $99.00 (cloth); $34.99 (paper)". The Journal of Modern History. 92 (1): 223–225. doi:10.1086/707296.

Todd, Lisa M. (June 2020). "Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany. Edited by Devin O. Pendas, Mark Roseman, and Richard F. Wetzell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xii + 534. Paper $34.99. ISBN 978-1316616994". Central European History. 53 (Special 2): 477–479. doi:10.1017/S0008938920000345. S2CID 225826787. ProQuest 2437334385.

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