Hitler’s Judges
Ideological Commitment and the Death Penalty in Nazi Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9714669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wayne Geerling (0000-0002-8312-2147, University of Arizona), Gary Β Magee (0000-0002-2793-8790, IIE MSA), Gary Magee (Monash University and University of Johannesburg), Vinod Mishra (0000-0002-4686-5195, Monash University), Russell Smyth (0000-0001-6593-5462, Monash University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 128 |
| Issue | 614 |
| Pages | 2414-2449 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ecoj.12497 |
| OpenAlex | W2589990310 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
We examine the role of judicial policy preferences in influencing whether judges in Nazi Germany sentenced defendants charged with serious political offences to death. We find that judicial policy preferences, measured by the depth of the ideological commitment of the judge to the Nazi Party worldview, were an important determinant of whether judges imposed the death sentence. Judges more committed to the Nazi Party were more likely to impose the death sentence on defendants belonging to organised political opposition groups, those accused of violent resistance and those with characteristics to which Nazism was intolerant
Criminology · Ideology · Nazism · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Sentence · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
Die Urteilspraxis des nationalsozialistischen Volksgerichtshofs
The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited
Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes
Der Volksgerichtshof und sein Beobachter
Weimar Germany
Der Volksgerichtshof im nationalsozialistischen Staat
The Nazi Dictatorship
Authoritarian Rule of Law
Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Sentencing
The Struggle for Constitutional Power
In the Name of the Volk
Law and Courts in Authoritarian Regimes
Did Legal Positivism Render German Jurists Defenceless During the Third Reich
Toward a Process Model of Identity Formation
Weimar Germany. Promise and Tragedy
Judicial Independence in an Authoritarian Regime
Sentencing, Judicial Discretion, and Political Prisoners in Pre-War Nazi Germany
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |