Reinventing Punishment A Comparative History of Criminology and Penology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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Biografisk notat
Dr Michele Pifferi is Associate Professor of Legal History at the Law Department, University of Ferrara, where he teaches Medieval and Modern Law History and Criminal Law History. He has been visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main (2002); Emil Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International & Regional Economic Law and Justice, NYU School of Law (2009); Robbins Fellow at Berkeley UC, School of Law (2012); Academic Visitor at the Oxford Centre for Criminology (2014); and is currently Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg. His research interests focus on comparative history of criminal law and criminology and migration history.Reinventing Punishment is an impressive contribution to criminology, intellectual history and the sociology of law. I am excited about how it will spur the recently renewed scholarly interest in the history of criminology, the early history of policy-informing criminal science and the genealogy of criminal responsibilty.
Johann Koehler, The British Journal of Criminology
In this important and provocative book, Pifferi offers a rebuke to Pound, and to all scholars who have regarded the rise of criminology primarily as an international phenomenon. Despite the undoubted resemblances between the movements on the two sides of the Atlantic, he demonstrates that the American and European campaigns rested on fundamentally divergent conceptions of the demands of the rule of law.
James Whitman, Law and History Review
Reinventing Punishment is a pioneering work of comparative criminal justice history - and one of only a handful of works of its kind. If comparative penology is to develop an historical consciousness and thereby fulfil its promise as a research programme - and some of the most exciting recent work has been in that field - then we will need more studies of the kind that Michele Pifferi provides.
David Garland, Theoretical Criminology
Pifferi's comparative, transnational study offers one of the most complex, nuanced interpretations to date of penal-law reform in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries ... Pifferi's outstanding book will most certainly appeal to specialists in the history of law, criminology, and medicine and inspire further investigations into the transnational history of criminal-law reform.
Paul Garfinkel, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada (The Modern Law Review 2017)