Punishment and Social Structure was the Institute’s first major English-language publication.

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In New York Kirchheimer was assigned the completion of the work George Rusche had begun in 1931 on the relationship between penal practices and social trends. The result, Punishment and Social Structure, published in 1939, was the first of the Institut’s major works to appear in English. Rusche had completed the first part dealing with the period before t9oo; Kirchheimer picked up where he left off, writing a final chapter on fascism and, with Moses 1. Finkelstein’s help, translating the manuscript into English. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 475