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The Western Codification of Criminal Law: A Revision of the Myth of its Predominant French Influence

The Western Codification of Criminal Law: A Revision of the Myth of its Predominant French Influence

Author: Aniceto Masferrer
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
ISBN: 9783319719115
Published In: March 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Switzerland ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This volume addresses an important historiographical gap by assessing the respective contributions of tradition and foreign influences to the 19th century codification of criminal law. More specifically, it focuses on the extent of French influence - among others - in European and American civil law jurisdictions. In this regard, the book seeks to dispel a number of myths concerning the French model's actual influence on European and Latin American criminal codes.

The impact of the Napoleonic criminal code on other jurisdictions was real, but the scope and extent of its influence were significantly less than has sometimes been claimed. The overemphasis on French influence on other civil law jurisdictions is partly due to a fundamental assumption that modern criminal codes constituted a break with the past. The question as to whether they truly broke with the past or were merely a degree of reform touches on a difficult issue, namely, the dichotomy between tradition and foreign influences in the codification of criminal law. Scholarship has unfairly ignored this important subject, an oversight that this book remedies.

Part I

Tradition and Foreign Influences in the 19th century Codification of Criminal Law by Aniceto Masferrer

Part II

The Influence of the Napoleonic Penal Code on the Development of Criminal Law in Germany by Karl Härter

Ignoring France? Possible French Influences on the Development of Austrian Penal Law in the 19th century by Martin Paul Schennach

The influence of the French Penal Code of 1810 on the Belgian Penal Code of 1867 by Yves Cartuyvels

The Influence of the French Penal Code of 1810 over the ‘General Part’ of the Portuguese Penal Code of 1852 by Frederico de Lacerda da Costa Pinto

An Autonomous Path for the Italian Penal Code of 1889 by Stefano Vinci

The Roots of Italian Penal Codification by Michele Pifferi

The Myth of French Influence over Spanish Codification by Aniceto Masferrer

The Influence exerted by the 1819 Criminal Code of the Two Sicilies upon nineteenth-century Spanish Criminal Law Codification and its Projection in Latin America by Emilia Iñesta-Pastor

Part III

The ‘Code Pénal’ in the Itinerary of the Criminal Codification in America and Europe by Diego Nunes

Codifying the Criminal Law in Argentina by Alejandro Agüero

From Free Will to Social Defense (or from Cesare Beccaria to Cesare Lombroso) by Jorge Núñez

The 1830 Criminal Code of the Brazilian Empire and its Originality by Ignacio María Poveda Velasco

The Mexican Codification of Criminal Law by Oscar Cruz Barney

Part IV

European and US Influences on the 19th century Prison Reform by Isabel Ramos Vázquez.