1. Introduction : the 'dangerous classes' in Germany from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century / Richard J. Evans -- 2. The Mordbrenner fear in sixteenth-century Germany : political paranoia or the revenge of the outcast? / Bob Scribner -- 3. The equation of women and witches : a case study of witchcraft trials in Lucerne and Lausanne in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Susanna Burghartz -- 4. Bandits and the state : robbers and the authorities in the Holy Roman Empire in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / Uwe Danker -- 5. Infanticide in eighteenth-century Germany / Otto Ulbricht -- 6. Poachers in Upper Bavaria in 1848 : crime or conflict? / Regina Schulte -- 7. The crime rate : longitudinal and periodic trends in nineteenth- and twentieth-century German criminality, from Vorm©Þrz to Late Weimar / Eric A. Johnson -- 8. Prostitutes in Imperial Germany, 1870-1918 : working girls or social outcasts? / Lynn Abrams -- 9. Vagrants and beggars in Hitler's Reich / Wolfgang Ayass -- 10. 'Law-abiding Germans'? Social disintegration, crime and the reimposition of order in post-war Western Germany, 1945-9 / Alan Kramer.