TY  - JOUR
AB  - Modern criminal justice and criminal science developed alongside modern statehood. However much these institutions strive for objectivity and emotional distance, the state system of punishment has never got by without suspicions, and suspicions are always associated with presumptions of dangerousness. This article makes use of examples from the early days of criminal science, above all statements made by the Graz criminologist Hans Gross and his colleagues, to show how attempts were made around 1900 to perfect the system of state legitimised strategies of suspicion and how the system was connected with the stigmatisation of deviant and disadvantaged groups, not least those that were already restricted in terms of self-fulfilment, such as women or so-called “gypsies”. This gave rise to the paradox that the state essentially placed every citizen under general suspicion, but expected these “suspects” to place unlimited trust in it and approve its increasing appeals for regulation in ever more areas of life. But how can an institution whose efficiency is based on suspicions awaken trust? And what problems crop up when considering these questions for the discipline of criminal science? The historical analysis reveals how important these questions also are for the situation today, even if history is unable to solve today’s problems. We will have to take care of that ourselves.
AU  - Bachhiesl, Christian
DO  - 10.7396/IE_2022_D
ET  - 09/2022
KW  - criminal science
strategies of suspicion
presumptions of dangerousness
LA  - eng
M1  - International Edition 
PY  - 2022
SN  - 1813-3495
SP  - 40-48
ST  - Coat Collar and Trouser Fly. Strategies of suspicion and presumptions of dangerousness in the field of criminal science around 1900
T2  - SIAK-Journal − Journal for Police Science and Practice
TI  - Coat Collar and Trouser Fly. Strategies of suspicion and presumptions of dangerousness in the field of criminal science around 1900
UR  - http://www.bmi.gv.at/104/Wissenschaft_und_Forschung/SIAK-Journal/internationalEdition/files/Bachhiesl_IE_2022.pdf
VL  - 12
ID  - 796
ER  -