Judge Thy Neighbor Denunciations in the Spanish Inquisition, Romanov Russia, and Nazi Germany
Judge Thy Neighbor: Denunciations in the Spanish Inquisition, Romanov Russia, and Nazi Germany

From the Spanish Inquisition to Nazi Germany to the United States today, ordinary people have often chosen to turn in their neighbors to the authorities. What motivates citizens to inform on the people next door? In Judge Thy Neighbor, Patrick Bergemann provides a theoretical framework for understan...

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1. Verfasser: Bergemann, Patrick (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Columbia University Press [2019]
Schriftenreihe:The Middle Range Series
Schlagworte:
Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición
Geschichte 1933-1945
Geschichte 1478-1502
Geschichte 1613-1649
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Denunciation (Criminal law) > Europe > History
Inquisition > Spain > History
Malicious accusation > Europe > History
National socialism > Germany > History
Denunziation
Drittes Reich
Spanien
Russland
Online-Zugang:DE-1043
DE-1046
DE-858
DE-859
DE-860
DE-473
DE-355
DE-706
DE-739
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Zusammenfassung:From the Spanish Inquisition to Nazi Germany to the United States today, ordinary people have often chosen to turn in their neighbors to the authorities. What motivates citizens to inform on the people next door? In Judge Thy Neighbor, Patrick Bergemann provides a theoretical framework for understanding the motives for denunciations in terms of institutional structures and incentives.In case studies of societies in which denunciations were widespread, Bergemann merges historical and quantitative analysis to explore individual participation in social control. He sheds light on Jewish converts’ shifting motives during the Spanish Inquisition; when and why seventeenth-century Romanov subjects fulfilled their obligation to report insults to the tsar’s honor; and the widespread petty and false complaints filed by German citizens under the Third Reich, as well as present-day plea bargains, whistleblowing, and crime reporting. Bergemann finds that when authorities use coercion or positive incentives to elicit information, individuals denounce out of self-preservation or to gain rewards. However, in the absence of these incentives, denunciations are often motivated by personal resentments and grudges. In both cases denunciations facilitate social control not because of citizen loyalty or shared ideology but through the local interests of ordinary participants. Offering an empirically and theoretically rich account of the dynamics of denunciation as well as vivid descriptions of the denounced, Judge Thy Neighbor is a timely and compelling analysis of the reasons people turn in their acquaintances, with relevance beyond conventionally repressive regimes
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)
Beschreibung:1 online resource 4 maps
ISBN:9780231542388
DOI:10.7312/berg18016

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