Urbanization, Industrialization, and Crime in Imperial Germany: Part I

Evaluating Court Statistics as a Data Source for Studying Nineteenth-Century Crime

“…Such research using court data from nineteenth-century France and Germany has considered the important question of whether crime in modernizing society is related to the process of urban-industrial expansion or to the structure of urban-industrial society (Lodhi and Tilly 1973;McHale andJohnson 1976, 1977). However, these studies reach very different conclusions, and research addressing this or related questions has not been conducted using data from the nineteenth-century United States.…”

A Social History of the Social Science History Association during Its Early Years

“…The introduction of European and Asian examples, which permitted comparative analyses, came through social historians, demographers, and historical sociologists, particularly those who had studied with Chuck Tilly. The first years of Social Science History presented research on crime in imperial Germany, migration in Sweden, the Belgian population registers, and peasant stem families in Austria, to give only selected examples (Åkerman 1977; Gutmann and van de Walle 1978; McHale and Johnson 1976; Rebel 1978). Within a few years, an international crew of demographers interested in social history made an annual pilgrimage to the SSHA to measure their results against those studying different communities.…”