Reinventing Punishment - A Comparative History of Criminology Penology in Nineteenth

Zusatztext Pifferi's comparative, transnational study offers one of the most complex, nuanced interpretations to date of penal-law reform in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries ... Pifferi's outstanding book will most certainly appeal to specialists in the history of law, criminology, and medicine and inspire further investigations into the transnational history of criminal-law reform. Informationen zum Autor Dr Michele Pifferi is Associate Professor of Legal History at the Law Department, University of Ferrara, where he teaches Medieval and Modern Law History and Criminal Law History. He has been visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main (2002); Emil Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International & Regional Economic Law and Justice, NYU School of Law (2009); Robbins Fellow at Berkeley UC, School of Law (2012); Academic Visitor at the Oxford Centre for Criminology (2014); and is currently Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg. His research interests focus on comparative history of criminal law and criminology and migration history. A comparative approach to the history of criminology and penology between 1870s and 1930s, charting the history of the influence of criminological ideas on criminal law systems and sentencing methods and providing an interpretation of the divide between American and European penologies. Zusammenfassung A comparative approach to the history of criminology and penology between 1870s and 1930s, charting the history of the influence of criminological ideas on criminal law systems and sentencing methods and providing an interpretation of the divide between American and European penologies.

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• Authors: Michele Pifferi, Michele (Associate Professor of Legal His Pifferi, Pifferi Michele
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.06.2016
• EAN: 9780198743217
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874321-7
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology; Clarendon Studies in Criminolo
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, LAW / Legal History, Criminal law & procedure, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Legal History, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Criminal law: procedure and offences