Introduction: From responsibility to dangerousness? the failed promise of penal positivism / Michele Pifferi. Scientist utopia and reactionary nostalgia : criminal procedure and the early positivist school / Marco Nicola Miletti -- Penal reform in Imperial Germany : conflict and compromise / Richard F. Wetzell -- The French judicial and political origins of Raymond Saleilles' individualization of punishment / James M. Donovan -- The influence of positivism in Belgium : an eclectic compromise between adhesion and resistance / Yves Cartuyvels -- The limits of positivism : Finnish criminal law scholarship and the European context at the turn of the twentieth century / Heikki Pihlajamaki -- From the sacred springtime of criminal law to the limits of criminological positivism in Spain / Enrique Roldan Canizares -- Fascist Italy's juvenile courts in their infancy : first impressions / Paul Garfinkel -- Responding to the problem of crime : English criminal law and the limits of positivism, 1870-1940 / Lindsay Farmer -- Positivism's humbugs: criminology and its cranks in progressive America / Susanna Blumenthal -- Limits and displacements in the adoption of criminological positivism in Brazil (1890-1940) / Ana Lucia Sabadell and Dimitri Dimoulis -- From responsibility to dangerousness? the failed promise of penal positivism / Michele Pifferi.
Summary:
"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"--Provided by publisher.
Series:
Routledge SOLON explorations in crime and criminal justice histories
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