Exploring the evolving perceptions of crime and criminals, this book delves into the complexities of criminal justice systems and penology. It highlights the challenges and moral dilemmas faced by democratic societies in addressing crime, providing a comprehensive analysis of the shifting landscape of justice and societal responses to criminal behavior.
On 1st January 1889 the Internationale Kriminalistische Vereinigung (known in French as Association Internationale de Droit Penal) was established. At the time of its centenary, Prof. Sir Leon Radzinowicz, the most distinguished criminologist and author, who has a longstanding involvement in the international study of crime and punishment, casts his eyes over past achievements and reexamines them somewhat critically. This fresh study of the formative period of the I.K.V., although seemingly remote, contains much that is vitally relevant to many of our present day concerns