Forensic Society

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The Kriminalbiologische Gesellschaft was a criminological organization in the field of criminal biology . It existed from 1927 to 1967.

Foundation and history

The criminal biologist Adolf Lenz from Graz founded the criminal biology society in Vienna in 1927 and became its first chairman. The co-founder Theodor Viernstein and Ferdinand von Neureiter became his deputies, Rainer Fetscher treasurer and Ernst Seelig secretary. In 1927 the society had 98 members. Other board members were beside Lenz, four stone of Neureiter and Fetscherplatz Edmund Mezger , Franz Exner and Ernst Rudin , also included the company also Franz Kapp , Paul Riffel , Louis Verwaeck , Max Hagemann , Ernst Kretschmer , Wilhelm Sauer , Johannes Lange and Hans Luxe Burger on . In 1933 the society reached the membership level of 165, which then reduced to 68 members by 1937, because Jewish and politically unreliable members were excluded or left the society of their own accord, including Rainer Fetscher and the judicial officer Albert Krebs .

In 1937 Viernstein took over the board. Mezger became deputy chairman, Exner, then professor of forensic biology at the University of Berlin, was elected third chairman. At the same time, he was in charge of the forensic biological research center in the Reich Health Office and the forensic biological service of the Reich Justice Administration.

From 1927 to 1937 five major forensic biology conferences took place (Pentecost 1927: founding conference in Vienna; October 1928: Dresden; 1930: Munich; 1933: Hamburg; 1937: Munich). A sixth conference planned for Graz in 1939 was canceled due to the war.

After the war the company was re-established in 1951. Edmund Mezger was chairman from 1951 to 1961. From 1951 the regular meetings were resumed.

Goal setting

The society promoted interdisciplinary cooperation between academic criminal science, criminal biological investigative practice and administrative authorities in order to anchor criminal biology in criminal law practice. In addition, the cooperation between the various research centers in Latvia, Bavaria, Saxony and Austria should be strengthened.

Magazine and announcements

The Kriminalbiologische Gesellschaft took over the monthly magazine for criminal psychology and criminal law reform , which had been published since 1904/05 and which was published by Heidelberger Verlag Winter until 1935, and from 1936 by Verlag Lehmann (Munich, Berlin). From the 28th year in 1937 on, the title changed to a monthly for criminal biology and criminal law reform . The journal was kept in the subtitle as an organ of the criminal biological society . The monthly magazine for criminology and criminal law reform is the successor magazine .

In addition, from 1927/28 onwards, the communications of the Criminal Biological Society (Vol. 1: 1927/28; Vol. 2: 1929; Vol. 3: 1931; Vol. 4: 1933; Vol. 5: 1938 (all in Verlag U. Mosers Buchhandlung, Graz); Vol. 6: 1951 (published by W. Steinebach, Munich-Düsseldorf)). Volumes VII to XVII appeared from 1953 to 1970 as issues 1 to 10 of the title Kriminalbiologische Gegenwartsfragen (F. Enke Verlag, Stuttgart).

Renaming and successor organization

The immediate successor organization is the Society for All Criminology . The name change was decided and implemented on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding day in 1967.

literature

  • Heinz Schöch, The social organization of German-language criminology , in: Gedächtnisschrift für Hilde Kaufmann, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1986, ISBN 3110104636 (pp. 362–368)
  • Jürgen Simon, Forensic Biology and Forced Sterilization: Eugenic Racism 1920-1945 , Waxmann Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3830910630 (pp. 152–160)
  • Imanuel Baumann, On the trail of crimes: A history of criminology and criminal policy in Germany, 1880 to 1980 , Wallstein Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3835300083 (pp. 66–69)