[The book] can teach us lessons how to deal with current challenges by revealing the dynamics between ideology and criminal law ... The present volume, while offering thought-provoking and inspiring insights, provides an excellent starting point for further research into this burning issue.
- Florian JeĂberger and Tobias Beinder, Quaderni Fiorentini per la storia del pensiero giuridico moderno
PART I
BELIEFS, FOUNDATIONS AND IDENTITIES
1. âAlso and Above All a Regime of Justiceâ. 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, 1930sâ1940s 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 âthe Moral Character of Italiansâ
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, 1940â1945
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 (1891â1962) and Legal Autonomy in Interwar Japan
Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins
PART III
DEVELOPMENT, EXPRESSION AND TENSIONS
12. Punishing the âVeterans of Crimeâ: Recidivism in Fascist Italyâs 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