
This book, which was first published in 1988, deals with the neglected history of the lowest layers of German society, of marginal, outcast and deviant groups such as arsonists, witches, bandits, infanticides, poachers, murderers, prostitutes, vagrants and thieves, from the...


This text looks at how certain groups in German history have been stigmatized and shows how structures of deviance changed during the process of industrialization in the 19th century.