PART I BELIEFS, FOUNDATIONS AND IDENTITIES 1. ‘Also and Above All a Regime of Justice’. Criminal Law and the Aesthetics of Justice Under the Italian Fascist Regime: The Role of Architecture and the Visual Arts Luigi Lacche 2. Criminal Law in Auschwitz: Positivism, Natural Law and the Career of SS Lawyer Konrad Morgen David Fraser 3. Nazi Law as Non-law in Academic Discourse Simon Lavis 4. Nazi Criminal Justice in the Transnational Arena: The 1935 International Penal and Penitentiary Congress in Berlin Richard F Wetzell 5. Criminology and the Rise of Authoritarian Criminal Law, 1930s–1940s 5 Michele Pifferi 6. Classifying Law as Criminal in Apartheid South Africa Marika Giles Samson PART II COURTS, LAWYERS AND REPRESSION 7. Coercion and Consensus: Using the Law to Change ‘the Moral Character of Italians’ Alessandra Bassani and Ambra Cantoni 8. The Judiciary and Political Power Under the Fascist Regime in Italy Riccardo Cavallo 9. National Socialism and the Law in Norway Under German Occupation, 1940–1945 Hans Petter Graver 10. The Repression of Lawyers After the Spanish Civil War: The Case of Valencia Pascual Marzal and Aniceto Masferrer 11. Yukitoki Takikawa (1891–1962) and Legal Autonomy in Interwar Japan Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins PART III DEVELOPMENT, EXPRESSION AND TENSIONS 12. Punishing the ‘Veterans of Crime’: Recidivism in Fascist Italy’s Rocco Code of 1930 Paul Garfinkel 13. Anti-democratic Emotions: Crimes of Honour Before and Under the Fascist Regime Emilia Musumeci 14. Criminal Law and the Use of Force: Ideology and State Power in Fascist Italy and England in the Interwar Period Stephen Skinner 15. The Restless National Security Acts: The Absence of Crimes Against National Security in the 1940 Brazilian Penal Code Diego Nunes and Ricardo Sontag 16. The Law of Blood: Totalitarianism, Criminal Law and the Body Politic of Second World War Romania Cosmin Cercel Conclusion: Investigating Ideology and Criminal Law in Legal History Stephen Skinner

Volume of original essays focusing on the relationship between ideology and criminal law under Italian Fascism, German National Socialism, and other regimes that could be labelled as generically fascist or authoritarian