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"The Limits of Criminological Positivism: The Movement for Criminal Law Reform in the West, 1870-1940 presents the first major study of the limits of criminological positivism in the West and establishes the subject as a field of interest.The volume will explore those limits and bring to life the resulting doctrinal, procedural and institutional compromises of the early 20th-century that might be said to have defined modern criminal justice administration.Written in a straight-forward and direct manner, this volume will be of great interest to academics and students researching historical criminology, philosophy, political science and legal history"--

A comparative approach to the history of criminology and penology between 1870s and 1930s, charting the history of the influence of criminological ideas on criminal law systems and sentencing methods and providing an interpretation of the divide between American and European penologies.

A comparative approach to the history of criminology and penology between 1870s and 1930s, charting the history of the influence of criminological ideas on criminal law systems and sentencing methods and providing an interpretation of the divide between American and European penologies

A comparative approach to the history of criminology and penology between 1870s and 1930s, charting the history of the influence of criminological ideas on criminal law systems and sentencing methods and providing an interpretation of the divide between American and European penologies

Le riflessioni di Roberto Cornelli sulla paura della criminalità, le cause sociologiche e culturali che la generano ed alimentano, l'utilizzo politico che ne viene fatto, il rapporto tra il sentimento individuale e collettivo e le scelte legislative o di politica criminale, offrono utili chiavi di lettura allo storico del diritto per avviare un dialogo diacronico interdisciplinare. In questo contributo cercherò, in particolare, di rileggere alcune esperienze storiche in tema di ius migrandi e criminalizzazione degli immigrati alla luce di interpretazioni orientate dalla logica della paura. Cornelli individua nella letteratura sulla paura della criminalità quattro tesi esplicative che rinviano, rispettivamente, al «legame tra paura, rischio e politiche» ed al fatto che queste ultime «sono solitamente innescate non tanto dal potenziale di pericolo contenuto in un certo evento, quanto dal coagularsi di insicurezze di vario tipo attorno a quel fenomeno che, a seconda dei periodi, presenta le caratteristiche più idonee ad attrarre l'attenzione pubblica»; al senso di declino della civiltà o di scontro di civiltà generato dal confronto con nuovi 'barbari' che genera nella collettività forti incertezze e paure per il futuro; ad inquietudini collettive «riformulate in una domanda di sicurezza capace di espandersi ad ogni aspetto della vita sociale»; ed, infine, alle ricadute negative di tali paure sulla tenuta del siste- ma democratico con una conseguente «restrizione dei diritti, sia generale che selettiva per alcune categorie di persone».

"Legal History presents a broad panorama of historical processes that trigger theoretical reflections on legal transfers and legal transplants and on the problem of the reception and assimilation laws and other modes of normativity. In this volume, legal historians across the globe reflect on their analytical traditions and present case studies in order to discuss how entangled histories of law can be understood, analyzed and written.
In the first section of this volume, 'Traditions of Transnational Legal History', the authors revisit specific achievements and shortcomings of legal historical research against the backdrop of postcolonial and global studies. Reflections on our own disciplinary traditions that reveal the path-dependencies include critical accounts on the tradition of 'European Legal History', 'Codification history', the emergence of 'Hindu Law', and the methodological aspects of Comparative Law.
The four articles in the second section, 'Empires and Law', showcase entangled legal histories forged in imperial spaces, for instance, through treaties concluded in the spheres of influence of ancient Roman Empire, which in this instance is analyzed as a process of 'narrative transculturation'. Analogously, transnational institutions adjudicating merchant-disputes in the Early Modern Spanish Empire and normative frameworks constructed in a multilingual space shortly after its decline are analyzed as 'diffusion and hybridization'. And finally, the spotlight is cast on the so-called 'craftsmen of transfer' and the bureaucrats that took practical comparative law as the basis to design the German colonial law.
In the third section, 'Analyzing transnational law and legal scholarship in 19th and early 20th century', seven case studies offer theoretical reflections about entangled legal histories. The discussions range from civil law codifications in Latin America as 'reception' or 'normative transfers', entangled histories of constitutionalism as 'translations' and 'legal transfer', formation of transnational legal orders in 19th century International Law and the International Law on state bankruptcies to the impact of transnational legal scholarship on criminology. All articles engage in methodological reflections and discussions about their concrete application in legal historical research."

Our modern legal system is based on the principle of
equality. But is equality perhaps not also a concept that
inadequately describes the complexity of normative orders?
Highly differentiated societies with a multitude of collective
identities and functional rationalities are in a permanent
state of tension with this legal postulate. The contributions
to this volume examine how this tension has developed in
Europe and Latin America over the last 200 years