Article ID: CBB482325612

From Epistemology of Suspicion to Racial Profiling: Hans Gross, Mobility, and Crime around 1900 (June 2019)

unapi

Hans Gross (1847–1915), the founder of Austro-Hungarian criminology, developed an epistemology of suspicion that targeted and profiled individuals as well as social and ethnic groups based mainly on their uprootedness and displacement. The scientific practices of observation and analysis he implemented in criminal investigations were anchored in epistemological assumptions that redefined and questioned both the object of study (namely, the criminal) and the subject (the investigator). By transferring scientific ideas and methods from the natural and social science into police work and judicial processes, Gross’s study of crime merged biological and social perspectives. This meant the categories of deviancy were attached to foreignness and social difference, migration and effects of urban life. His epistemology was underlined by social Darwinism, and his forensics, far from being an objective study, advocated what is today known as racial profiling.

...More
Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB482325612/

Similar Citations

Book Sengoopta, Chandak; (2000)
Otto Weininger: Sex, Science, and Self in Imperial Vienna (/isis/citation/CBB000110686/)

Article Burney, Ian; (2013)
Making Space for Criminalistics: Hans Gross and fin-de-siècle CSI (/isis/citation/CBB001213340/)

Essay Review Bunzl, Matti; (2002)
Sexual Modernity as Subject and Object (/isis/citation/CBB001566252/)

Chapter Christof Aichner; (2020)
Le Università austriache e la Grande Guerra. Storiografia e memoria (/isis/citation/CBB028193759/)

Article Salvatore Mangione; Anthony K. Vu; (2018)
Semmelweis at 200: Creativity, Skepticism and Charm in Medicine (/isis/citation/CBB145068087/)

Article Rivka Feldhay; Gal Hertz; (March 2019)
Migrating Knowledge and the Mobility of Ideas (/isis/citation/CBB665659210/)

Chapter Weikart, Richard; (2006)
The Impact of Social Darwinism on Anti-Semitic Ideology in Germany and Austria, 1860--1945 (/isis/citation/CBB000774672/)

Book Cantor, G. N.; Swetlitz, Marc; (2006)
Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism (/isis/citation/CBB000772602/)

Article David Anzola; (2019)
Knowledge transfer in agent-based computational social science (/isis/citation/CBB335011590/)

Chapter Irurozqui, Marta; (2001)
“Desvío al Paraíso”: Citizenship and Social Darwinism in Bolivia, 1880-1920 (/isis/citation/CBB000102724/)

Book Pietro Gori; (2018)
Ernst Mach: tra scienza e filosofia (/isis/citation/CBB991429309/)

Book Logan, Cheryl A.; (2013)
Hormones, Heredity, and Race: Spectacular Failure in Interwar Vienna (/isis/citation/CBB001214620/)

Article Ortíz, Carmen; (2010)
Naturalismo, novela y sociedad en España entre los siglos XIX y XX (/isis/citation/CBB001021990/)

Authors & Contributors
Gori, Pietro
Vu, Anthony K.
Gal Hertz
Mangione, Salvatore
Aichner, Christof
David Anzola
Concepts
Social sciences
Science and society
Social Darwinism
Epistemology
Psychology
Philosophy
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Renaissance
Medieval
Ancient
Places
Austria
Austro-hungary
Germany
Europe
Vienna (Austria)
South America
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment