The limits of criminological positivism: the movement for criminal law reform in the West, 1870-1940

"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"--

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of photographs -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An historiographical reassessment of criminological positivism -- 1. Scientist utopia and reactionary nostalgia: Criminal procedure and the early positivist school -- 2. Penal reform in imperial Germany: Conflict and compromise -- 3. The French judicial and political origins of Raymond Saleilles' individualization of punishment -- 4. The influence of positivism in Belgium: An eclectic compromise between adhesion and resistance -- 5. The limits of positivism: Finnish criminal law scholarship and the European context at the turn of the twentieth century -- 6. From the sacred springtime of criminal law to the limits of criminological positivism in Spain -- 7. Fascist Italy's juvenile courts in their infancy: First impressions -- 8. Responding to the problem of crime: English criminal law and the limits of positivism, 1870-1940 -- 9. Positivism's humbugs: Criminology and its cranks in progressive America -- 10. Limits and displacements in the adoption of criminological positivism in Brazil (1890-1940) -- 11. From responsibility to dangerousness? The failed promise of penal positivism -- Index.