Workshop on the Proposed Penal Code Reform

The Dilemma of Penal Reform

The Dilemma of Penal Reform. By Dr. Hermann Mannheim, with a preface by Prof. A. M. Carr-Saunders. Allen & Unwin. 1939. pp. 228. 7s. 6d. This book is based on a course of public lectures given at the London School of Economics in 1938-9. Professor Carr-Saunders points ?ut that for the constructive development of Penal Reform we need, firstly, accurate systematic sociological and psychological s...

Understanding Penal Reform: The Dynamic of Change

Pathological Intoxication and the Model Penal Code

Fascist Reform of the Penal Law in Italy, The

Revising the Model Penal Code: Keeping It Real

In deciding whether to reform or revise a document or institution, one must first address what the subject of the reform effort is. Before deciding whether the institution is serving its purposes well or badly, in other words, we must ask ourselves what purposes it is supposed to serve. The MPC is and does a number of things, though I suspect its predominantly academic audience of today is cons...