The Limits of Criminological Positivism

The Movement for Criminal Law Reform in the West, 1870-1940
Herausgeber: Pifferi, Michele

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume resents the first major study of the limits of criminological positivism in the West and establishes the subject as a field of interest and explores three comparative elements: the differing national experiences within the civil law world; differences and similarities between civil law and common law regimes.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781032133539
• ISBN-10: 1032133538
• Artikelnr.: 67826509

Autorenporträt

Michele Pifferi is Professor of Legal History at the University of Ferrara, Law Department. He has been Visiting Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt am Main; Emil Noël Fellow at NYU School of Law; Robbins Fellow at Berkeley UC-School of Law; Academic Visitor at the Oxford Centre for Criminology; and Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg, Faculty of Law. He is currently Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Law as well Principal Investigator of a research project on Legal History and Mass Migration: Integration, Exclusion, and Criminalization of Migrants in the 19th and 20th Century. Member of the Editorial Board of the series Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtsgeschehen -Italien (LIT Verlag), and of Quaderni fiorentini per la storia del pensiero giuridico moderno. His research interests focus on history of late medieval to late modern criminal justice, history of criminology, and history of migration law.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. An Historiographical Reassessment of Criminological
Positivism
Michele Pifferi
1. Scientist Utopia and Reactionary Nostalgia: Criminal Procedure and
the Early Positivist School
Marco Nicola Miletti
2. Penal Reform in Imperial Germany: Conflict and Compromise
Richard F. Wetzell
3. The French Judicial and Political Origins of Raymond Saleilles'
Individualization of Punishment
James M. Donovan
4. The Influence of Positivism in Belgium: An Eclectic Compromise
Between Adhesion and Resistance
Yves Cartuyvels
5. The Limits of Positivism: Finnish Criminal Law Scholarship and the
European Context at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Heikki Pihlajamäki
6. From the Sacred Springtime of Criminal Law to the Limits of
Criminological Positivism in Spain
Enrique Roldán Cañizares
7. Fascist Italy's Juvenile Courts in Their Infancy: First Impressions
Paul Garfinkel
8. Responding to the Problem of Crime: English Criminal Law and the
Limits of Positivism, 1870-1940
Lindsay Farmer
9. Positivism's Humbugs: Criminology and its Cranks in Progressive
America
Susanna Blumenthal
10. Limits and displacements in the adoption of criminological positivism
in Brazil (1890-1940)
Ana Lucia Sabadell and Dimitri Dimoulis
11. From Responsibility to Dangerousness? The Failed Promise of Penal
Positivism
Michele Pifferi
Index