Criminal Law In Liberal And Fascist Italy (Studies In Legal History)
Cambridge University Press
ISBN13:
9781107520141
$38.77
By extending the chronological parameters of existing scholarship, and by focusing on legal experts' overriding and enduring concern with 'dangerous' forms of common crime, this study offers a major reinterpretation of criminal-law reform and legal culture in Italy from the Liberal (1861-1922) to the Fascist era (1922-43). Garfinkel argues that scholars have long overstated the influence of positivist criminology on Italian legal culture and that the kingdom's penal-reform movement was driven not by the radical criminological theories of Cesare Lombroso, but instead by a growing body of statistics and legal researches that related rising rates of crime to the instability of the Italian state. Drawing on a vast array of archival, legal and official sources, the author explains the sustained and wide-ranging interest in penal-law reform that defined this era in Italian legal history while analyzing the philosophical underpinnings of that reform and its relationship to contemporary penal-reform movements abroad.
- | Author: Paul Garfinkel
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: May 16, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 554 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1107520142
- | ISBN-13: 9781107520141
- Author:
- Paul Garfinkel
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:
- May 16, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 554 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1107520142
- ISBN-13:
- 9781107520141