Criminal Law in Liberal and Fascist Italy (Studies in Legal History)
Criminal Law in Liberal and Fascist Italy (Studies in Legal History) by Paul Garfinkel
English | January 9th, 2017 | ISBN: 1107108918 | 556 pages | PDF | 11.84 MB
English | January 9th, 2017 | ISBN: 1107108918 | 556 pages | PDF | 11.84 MB
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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