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Criminal law in Liberal and Fascist Italy / Paul Garfinkel

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Garfinkel, Paul
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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1 online resource (xviii, 536 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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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.
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9781316266151 (ebook)
9781107108912 (hardback)
9781107520141 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2017).
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