Program

Tuesday, June 6

9:15 to 9:45 Reception

9:45 to 10:00 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

14:00 to 15:30 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

16:00 to 17:30 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

Wednesday, June 7

9:00 to 12:30 Panel 4: Psychiatry, Prisons and Criminal Justice
Chair: Maurice Cottier (University of Fribourg)

Cézane Beretta (University of Fribourg)
The Psychiatric Expert as a New Actor in the Execution of

Sentences in Switzerland in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Klará Pinerová (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes)
Science between Repression and Humanity: The Use of Psychology in Prison System in Czechoslovakia in the Years 1960-1992

Cristina Ferreira (Haute École de santé Vaud)
The "Therapeutic Value of the Sentence". A Look back at the Controversial Role of the Psychiatric Expert in the penal field (1970-1980)

Jonas Gloor (University of Zurich)
(Un)treatable offenders? (In-)Calculable Risks? Contested Knowledge about the Dangerousness of Sex Offenders in Switzerland (ca. 1993-2017)

14:00 to 17:30 Panel 5: Prison Reform in Practice
Chair: Alix Heiniger (University of Fribourg)

Pavel Baloun (Czech Academy of Sciences)
A History of the Workhouse in the Czech Lands in the First Half of the 20th Century

Géraldine Bugnon and Joëlle Droux (University of Geneva)
Reforming Juvenile Justice from Below: Professional Collaborations and Hybridizations in the Field of Juvenile Justice in Switzerland (1970-2000)

Nicolas Blumenthal (University of Fribourg)
Internment of (Non)Deportable Subjects in Switzerland between the 1950s and 1970s: No Punishment?

Viviane Trindade Borges (Santa Catarina State University)
Marginal Histories: Archives and Prison History in Latin America (1930 - 1980

Contact: maurice.cottier@unifr.ch

Source: A History of Constant Reform: Crime and Punishment in the Twentieth Century. In: H-Soz-Kult, 10.05.2023, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-136142>.