PART I
BELIEFS, FOUNDATIONS AND IDENTITIES
1. ‘Also and Above All a Regime of Justice’. Criminal Law and the Aesthetics of Justice Under the Italian Fascist Regime: The Role of Architecture and the Visual Arts Luigi Lacche
2. Criminal Law in Auschwitz: Positivism, Natural Law and the Career of SS Lawyer Konrad Morgen David Fraser
3. Nazi Law as Non-law in Academic Discourse Simon Lavis
4. Nazi Criminal Justice in the Transnational Arena: The 1935 International Penal and Penitentiary Congress in BerlinRichard F Wetzell
5. Criminology and the Rise of Authoritarian Criminal Law, 1930s–1940s 5Michele Pifferi
6. Classifying Law as Criminal in Apartheid South Africa Marika Giles Samson
PART II
COURTS, LAWYERS AND REPRESSION
7. Coercion and Consensus: Using the Law to Change ‘the Moral Character of Italians’ Alessandra Bassani and Ambra Cantoni
8. The Judiciary and Political Power Under the Fascist Regime in Italy Riccardo Cavallo
9. National Socialism and the Law in Norway Under German Occupation, 1940–1945 Hans Petter Graver
10. The Repression of Lawyers After the Spanish Civil War: The Case of Valencia Pascual Marzal and Aniceto Masferrer
11. Yukitoki Takikawa (1891–1962) and Legal Autonomy in Interwar Japan Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins
PART III
DEVELOPMENT, EXPRESSION AND TENSIONS
12. Punishing the ‘Veterans of Crime’: Recidivism in Fascist Italy’s Rocco Code of 1930 Paul Garfinkel
13. Anti-democratic Emotions: Crimes of Honour Before and Under the Fascist Regime Emilia Musumeci
14. Criminal Law and the Use of Force: Ideology and State Power in Fascist Italy and England in the Interwar Period Stephen Skinner
15. The Restless National Security Acts: The Absence of Crimes Against National Security in the 1940 Brazilian Penal Code Diego Nunes and Ricardo Sontag
16. The Law of Blood: Totalitarianism, Criminal Law and the Body Politic of Second World War Romania Cosmin CercelConclusion: Investigating Ideology and Criminal Law in Legal History Stephen Skinner