A History of Constant Reform: Crime and Punishment in the Twentieth Century

Tuesday, June 6

9:45 to 10:00 eception (with Coffee) Opening Remarks

10:00 to 12:30

Panel 1: Scientific Knowledge, Justice and Penal Reform

Chair: Regula Ludi (University of Fribourg)

Nathalie Dahn-Singh (University of Fribourg) (In-)Visibilizing Punishment: The Construction of Categories for Prison Statistics in the Context of Criminal Law Reform (Switzerland, 1889–1942)

Anouk Essyad (University of Fribourg)
Producing, Relaying, and Depoliticizing a Science on Prison and Criminals. A Collective Biography of the Swiss Participants in the International Prison Congresses (1872–1950)

Maurice Cottier (University of Fribourg)
Morals and Markets. The Chicago School of Economics’ Conceptions of Crime

Panel 2: Feminist Movements and Penal Reform

Chair: Anne-Françoise Praz (University of Fribourg)

Hannah Catherine Davies (University of Zurich)
Feminist Critiques of the Criminal Law in West Germany and its Influence on Crime Policy, 1970s/1980s

Julia Spohr (University of Kassel)
Debates on Violence against Women in the Federal Republic of Germany and France (1970–1990) – A Comparative Perspective

Coffee Break

Panel 3 Sex Work and Exploitation

Chair: Anne-Françoise Praz (University of Fribourg)

Peirou Chu (École normale supérieure de Lyon) Regulating urban prostitution in the Weimar Germany: collaboration and collision between justice and science

Sarah Frenking (University of Erfurt)
Women on the Move: Sex Trafficking and the Criminalization of «Deviant Mobilities» in the Interwar Period

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