Investigates the codification of criminal law in the West Examines the influence of the French criminal code on jurisdictions in Europe and Latin America Pursues a revealing, comparative approach to the topic

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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.