Reinventing Punishment ─ A Comparative History of Criminology and Penology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Offers an ambitious comparative approach to the history of criminology and penology, contributing to the current debate on the common traits of European and US penology
Interprets the relations between constitutional frameworks and the principle of individualisation of punishment
Analyses the legal, political, and theoretical arguments that have been used both against and in favour of preventive detention

Michele Pifferi, Associate Professor of Legal History, Ferrara University

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 Noel 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.