Criminal law in liberal and fascist Italy /
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 (1...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Studies in legal history.
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| 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 research 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 536 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-515) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1107108918 9781107108912 |