Criminal law in Liberal and Fascist Italy / Paul Garfinkel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garfinkel, Paul, author.

Series:

Studies in legal history.

Studies in legal history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal law--Italy--History--19th century.

Criminal law.

Criminal law--Italy--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 536 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-81737-7

1-316-81809-8

1-316-81821-7

1-316-26615-X

1-316-81833-0

1-316-81881-0

1-316-81845-4