Criminal Law in Liberal and Fascist Italy

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.

List of contents

1. Body count; 2. Civilized violence; 3. Force of habit; 4. Tomorrow's criminals; 5. Grapes and wrath; 6. Coup, casualty and catalyst: the Ferri Code, 1919-25; 7. Fascism's legal Risorgimento, 1925-31; Conclusion.

About the author

Paul Garfinkel is an Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Garfinkel, Paul (Simon Fraser University Garfinkel, Garfinkel Paul
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781107520141
• ISBN: 978-1-107-52014-1
• No. of pages: 554
• Series: Studies in Legal History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, 20th Century, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Italy, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Fascism & Nazism, Legal History, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology