Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the theory of enemy criminal law / Günther Jakobs. Hobbes on "diffidence" and the criminal law / Alice Ristroph -- Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments : a mirror on the history of the foundations of modern criminal law / Bernard E Harcourt -- Blackstone's criminal law : common-law harmonization and legislative reform / Simon Stern -- Foundations of the legislative panopticon : Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation / Guyora Binder -- Dignity, crime and punishment : a Kantian perspective / Meir Dan-Cohen -- PJA von Feuerbach and his Textbook of the Common Penal Law / Tatjana Hörnle -- The contraction of crime in Hegel's Rechtsphilosophie / Alan Brudner -- Mill's On Liberty and the modern "harm to others" principle / Bernard E Harcourt -- James Fitzjames Stephen : the punishment jurist / Marc O DeGirolami -- Pashukanis and public protection / Peter Ramsay -- Radbruch on the origins of criminal law : punitive interventions before sovereignty / Mireille Hildebrandt -- The model penal code, legal process, and the alegitimacy of American penality / Markus D Dubber -- The modest ambition of Glanville Williams / Lindsay Farmer -- The radical orthodoxy of Hart's Punishment and Responsibility / Malcolm Thorburn -- Criminal law as an efficiency-enhancing device : the contribution of Gary Becker / Alon Harel -- Foucault, criminal law, and the governmentalization of the state / Pat O'Malley and Mariana Valverde -- Nils Christie : "Conflicts as Property" / Vidar Halvorsen -- Günther Jakobs's Feindstrafrecht : a dispassionate account / Daniel Ohana -- Textbook of the common penal law in force in Germany / Paul Johann Anselm Feuerbach -- Concerning the need for a right violation in the concept of a crime, having particular regard to the concept of an affront to honour / Johann Michael Franz Birnbaum -- The origin of criminal law in the status of the unfree / Gustav Radbruch -- On the theory of enemy criminal law / Günther Jakobs.