Youthful childhood in the "saddle era"
Youth and young people often serve as a projection surface for numerous positive and/or negative attributions. The project explores the hypothesis that fundamental changes occurred in the perception of and treatment of youth in the period from 1750 to 1850, the so-called "Sattelzeit".
Project description
The project aims to explore the conceptualization of juvenile delinquency during the so-called "Sattelzeit" towards the end of the 18th century and in the first half of the 19th century. It is assumed that this period saw a fundamental transformation in the way juvenile delinquency was understood and dealt with. Specifically, three questions will be addressed, which will be reconstructed using three types of sources: Communication in the environment of the first Prussian Ministry of Culture from 1825 onwards, policey orders and public debates in newspapers. The reconstruction is thus deliberately limited to political-administrative and public discourse. Analyses from the three types of sources will be brought together to create a differentiated synopsis of a complex picture of juvenile delinquency during this period. The project objectives include a focus on how youth was conceptualized in principle and how special measures of help and education were justified for young people accused of delinquency. By focusing on juvenile delinquency, the project can therefore make an important contribution not only to historical crime research, but also to historical youth research and historical social pedagogy.
Everything at a glance
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Duration
01.09.2021 - 31.10.2024 -
Research areas
Social Pedagogy & History -
Funding
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Team | Publications | Lectures
- Prof. Dr. Bernd Dollinger, Project Manager
- Kira Keßler, research assistant
- Dr. Michael Rocher, research assistant
- Tabea Terkowsky, student assistant until 30.09.2023
- M. Rocher (2023): Pedagogy against free time. Unsupervised time as a pedagogical problem in the 18th century. Accepted article (peer-review) for the thematic section of the Jahrbuch für Historische Bildungsforschung 29 (to be published in 2024).
- B. Dollinger/K. Keßler/M. Rocher (2023; in press): "Jugend" als Objekt der Policey. An Approach to Conceptions of Youth in Prussian Policey Orders of the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries. In: H. Breit/C. Himmelsbach/R. Hoffmann/U. Bittling-mayer/J. Gerdes (eds.): With science beyond science. Weinheim.
- B. Dollinger/K. Keßler/M. Rocher (2023): Crime prevention through education? The constitution of juvenile delinquency around 1800. in: ZJJ. 34. vol. p. 4-11.
- B. Dollinger (2023): Forms of criminality. On the historical production of differential realities of criminality. In: Criminological Journal. 55th vol. pp. 217-233.
- B. Dollinger (2022): Zwischen Recht und Pädagogik: Über die Behandlung von Jugendkriminalität als Erziehungsproblem in Preußen zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts. In: Journal for Social Pedagogy. 20 vol. p. 159-176.
- B. Dollinger (2021): When criminality got a biography. Paradoxes of the conceptualization of criminality in the criminal histories of the late Enlightenment. In: Journal of Criminology. 53rd vol. p. 242-257.
- B. Dollinger/S. Heppchen (2019): Narratives of Conviction and the Re-Storying of 'Offenders'. In: J. Fleetwood/L. Presser/S. Sandberg/T. Ugelvik (eds.): Emerald Handbook of Narrative Criminology. Bingley. S. 303-320.
- B. Dollinger/M. Schabdach (2012): Social work and the "policey". In: Journal for Social Pedagogy. 10th vol. pp. 227-243.
- The official perception of delinquency. The Prussian Ministry of Culture in the fight against juvenile delinquency; Kira Keßler; DGFE conference Halle (10.03.-13.03.2024)
- Discussion of the international constitution of juvenile delinquency; Bernd Dollinger, Kira Keßler, Michael Rocher in an expert discussion with Heather Shore (12.01.2024)
- When Crime Became a Story: Histories of Crime Narratives and Their Analysis, Bernd Dolliger, Kira Keßler; Narrative Criminology Conference 2023: Narrative Victimology and Criminology. KU Leuven, Antwerp (04.07.2023)
- Official attributions of character and emotion and their consideration in the assessment of juvenile delinquency, Kira Keßler; Panel on youth and punishment at the conference of the working group on pre-modern educational history of the DGfE section on historical educational research (06.10.-07.10.2023)
- Unfreedom and Inequality. Juvenile delinquency around 1800, Bernd Dollinger, Michael Rocher; Section Conference of Historical Educational Research of the DGfE (11.09-13.09.2023)
- Monitor an regulate Youth Delinquency. The Case of The Prussian Authorities in the Years 1825-1849, Kira Keßler, Michael Rocher; ESC Firenzw (06.09.-09.09.2023)
- Youth and Gender in the Brandenburg-Prussian Policey 1750-1806 and the Aftermath of Pietist Educational Ideas around 1800, Michael Rocher; Intersections of Age and Gender in Pietism, Wolfenbüttel (04.05-06.05.2023)
- Youth as a political problem. The Statistical Surveys of the Prussian Ministry of Culture (1826-1849), Kira Keßler, 5th Workshop for Doctoral Candidates on the History of Westphalia, Bielefeld (09.-10.03.2023)
- Discussion of the question of juvenile delinquency around 1800, Bernd Dollinger, Kira Keßler, Michael Rocher in an expert discussion with Regula Ludi (17.10.2022)
- What disturbs 'good breeding'? Juvenile delinquency in Kleve-Mark, Kira Keßler; colloquium on modern history, University of Tübingen (18.07.2022)
- Youth in Brandenburg-Prussian Policey Orders, Michael Rocher; Colloquium on Early Modern History, University of Halle (12.07.2022)
- Discussion on the evaluation of policey orders, Bernd Dollinger, Kira Keßler, Michael Rocher as well as Karl Härter, Gerd Schwerhoff, A. Romein; workshop with external experts (10.06.2022)
- Education and juvenile delinquency. Historical notes on the situation around 1800, Bernd Dollinger; DVJJ expert workshop on the idea of education; 100 years of the JGG, Hanover (18.03.2022)
- Juvenile delinquency as a problem of education in the 'Sattelzeit', Bernd Dollinger; Research colloquium on historical educational research at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (15.07.2021)