The Western Codification of Criminal Law

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Tradition and Foreign Influences in the 19th Century Codification of Criminal Law: Dispelling the Myth of the Pervasive French Influence in Europe and Latin America (Aniceto Masferrer)....Pages 3-50 Front Matter ....Pages 51-51 The Influence of the Napoleonic Penal Code on the Development of Criminal Law in Germany: Juridical Discourses, Legal Transfer and Codification (Karl Härter)....Pages 53-75 Ignoring France? Possible French Influences on the Development of Austrian Penal Law in the 19th Century (Martin P. Schennach)....Pages 77-93 The Influence of the French Penal Code of 1810 on the Belgian Penal Code of 1867: Between Continuity and Innovation (Yves Cartuyvels)....Pages 95-113 The Influence of the French Penal Code of 1810 Over the “General Part” of the Portuguese Penal Code of 1852: The Visible and the Invisible (Frederico de Lacerda da Costa Pinto, Pedro Caeiro)....Pages 115-130 An Autonomous Path for the Italian Penal Code of 1889: The Constructing Process and the First Case Law Applications (Stefano Vinci)....Pages 131-161 The Roots of Italian Penal Codification: Nation Building and the Claim for a Peculiar Identity in Criminal Law (Michele Pifferi)....Pages 163-192 The Myth of French Influence Over Spanish Codification: The General Part of the Criminal Codes of 1822 and 1848 (Aniceto Masferrer)....Pages 193-242 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 (Emilia Iñesta-Pastor)....Pages 243-278 Front Matter ....Pages 279-279 The ‘Code Pénal’ in the Itinerary of the Criminal Codification in America and Europe: ‘Influence’ and Circularity of Models (Diego Nunes)....Pages 281-295 Codifying the Criminal Law in Argentina: Provincial and National Codification in the Genesis of the First Penal Code (Alejandro Agüero, Matías Rosso)....Pages 297-322 From Free Will to Social Defense (or from Cesare Beccaria to Cesare Lombroso): Julio Herrera and the Criminal Law Codification in Argentina (1903–1922) (Jorge A. Núñez)....Pages 323-339 The 1830 Criminal Code of the Brazilian Empire and Its Originality (Ignacio Maria Poveda Velasco, Eduardo Tomasevicius Filho)....Pages 341-368 The Mexican Codification of Criminal Law: Its Foreign Influences (Oscar Cruz Barney)....Pages 369-409 Front Matter ....Pages 411-411 European and US Influences on the 19th Century Prison Reform (Isabel Ramos Vázquez)....Pages 413-427