Richard Wetzell
{{Short description|American historian}}
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Stanford University
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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.
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.{{cite news |title=Richard F. Wetzell |url=https://www.ghi-dc.org/team/person/richard-f-wetzell |access-date=9 January 2022 |publisher=German Historical Institute}}
Selected publications
- {{cite book |last1=Wetzell |first1=Richard F. |title=Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945 |date=2000 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=9780807825358}}Reviews include:
- {{cite journal |last1=Wakefield |first1=Andre |title=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. |journal=Isis |date=March 2002 |volume=93 |issue=1 |pages=100–101 |doi=10.1086/343270}} [https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_fac_pub/18/ Alternate URL]
- {{cite journal |last1=Dubber |first1=Markus Dirk |title=Reviewed Work: Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945 by Richard F. Wetzell |journal=Law and History Review |date=2003 |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=644–647 |doi=10.2307/3595135 |jstor=3595135|s2cid=147473176 }}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Becker |editor1-first=Peter |editor2-last=Wetzell |editor2-first=Richard F. |title=Criminals and their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective. |date=2005 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521120739}}Reviews include:
- {{cite journal |last1=Buhagiar |first1=Lawrence |title=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). |journal=The British Journal of Criminology |date=July 2006 |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=766–769 |doi=10.1093/bjc/azl046}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Johansen |first1=Anja |title=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) |journal=Crime, History, and Societies |date=2010 |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=159–161 |doi=10.4000/chs.1230|doi-access=free }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Adler |first1=Jeffrey S. |title=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 |journal=The Journal of Interdisciplinary History |date=2008 |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=435–436 |doi=10.1162/jinh.2008.38.3.435|s2cid=195826476 }} [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/224604/ Project MUSE]
- {{cite journal |last1=Schwarz |first1=Angela |title=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). |journal=Canadian Journal of History |date=2009 |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=191–193 |doi=10.3138/cjh.44.1.191 |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE{{!}}A205032658&v=2.1&it=r&sid=googleScholar&asid=83df31ed}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Sharma |first1=Avi |title=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 |journal=History: Reviews of New Books |date=2007 |volume=35 |issue=3 |page=115 |doi=10.1080/03612759.2007.10527073|s2cid=141698095 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Wetzell |first1=Richard F. |title=Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany (Studies in German History Book 16) |date=2014 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=9781782382461}}{{cite journal |last1=Raim |first1=Edith|authorlink=Edith Raim |title=Reviewed Work: Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany (Studies in German History 16) by Richard F. Wetzell |journal=VSWG: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte |date=2015 |volume=102 |issue=4 |pages=530–531 |jstor=26590616}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Brückweh |editor1-first=Kerstin |editor2-last=Schumann |editor2-first=Dirk |editor3-last=Wetzell |editor3-first=Richard |editor4-last=Ziemann |editor4-first=Benjamin |editor1-link=Kerstin Brückweh |editor4-link=Benjamin Ziemann |title=Engineering Society: The Role of the Human and Social Sciences in Modern Societies, 1880-1980 |date=2012 |publisher=Palgrave MacMillan |isbn=9781349326808}}Reviews include:
- {{cite journal |last1=Ruberg |first1=Willemijn |title=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 |journal=Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis |date=April 2014 |volume=127 |issue=1 |pages=164–165 |doi=10.5117/TVGESCH2014.1.RUBE}}
- {{cite journal |title=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. |journal=The American Historical Review |date=April 2013 |volume=118 |issue=2 |page=628 |doi=10.1093/ahr/118.2.628a}}
- {{cite book|editor1-link=Devin O. Pendas|editor2-link=Mark Roseman |editor1-last=Pendas |editor1-first=Devin O. |editor2-last=Roseman |editor2-first=Mark |editor3-last=Wetzell |editor3-first=Richard |title=Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany |date=2017 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780805068108}}Reviews include:
- {{cite journal |last1=Wiesen |first1=S. Jonathan |title=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. |journal=Holocaust and Genocide Studies |date=2019 |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=275–277 |doi=10.1093/hgs/dcz032}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Rosenhaft |first1=Eve |title=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). |journal=The Journal of Modern History |date=March 2020 |volume=92 |issue=1 |pages=223–225 |doi=10.1086/707296}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Todd |first1=Lisa M. |title=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. |journal=Central European History |date=June 2020 |volume=53 |issue=Special 2 |pages=477–479 |doi=10.1017/S0008938920000345 |s2cid=225826787 |id={{ProQuest|2437334385}}}}
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