Introduction 1. Hobbes on "Diffidence" and the Criminal Law, Alice Ristroph 2. Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments:A Mirror on the History of the Foundations of Modern Criminal Law 3. Blackstone's Criminal Law: Common-Law Harmonization and Legislative Reform 4. Foundations of the Legislative Panopticon: Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation 5. Dignity, Crime, and Punishment: A Kantian Perspective 6. PJA von Feuerbach and his Textbook of the Common Penal Law 7. The Contraction of Crime in Hegel's Rechtsphilosophie 8.

Mill's On Liberty and the Modern "Harm to Others" Principle 9. James Fitzjames Stephen: The Punishment Jurist 10. Pashukanis and Public Protection 11. Radbruch on the Origins of the Criminal Law: Punitive Interventions before Sovereignty 12. The Model Penal Code, Legal Process, and the Alegitimacy of American Penality 13. The Modest Ambition of Glanville Williams 14. The Radical Orthodoxy of Hart's Punishment and Responsibility 15. Criminal Law as an Efficiency-Enhancing Device: The Contribution of Gary Becker 16.

Foucault, Criminal Law, and the Governmentalization of the State 17. Nils Christie: "Conflicts as Property" 18. Gunther Jakobs's Feindstrafrecht: A Dispassionate Account Appendix A. Textbook of the Common Penal Law in Force in Germany Appendix B. Concerning the Need for a Right Violation in the Concept of a Crime, having particular Regard to the Concept of an Affront to Honour Appendix C. The Origin of Criminal Law in the Status of the Unfree Appendix D. On the Theory of Enemy Criminal Law.