Reinventing punishment : a comparative history of criminology and penology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Michele Pifferi.

Introduction
Designing the "new horizons" of punishment
The origins of different penological identities
The struggle over the indeterminacy of punishment in the United States (1870s to 1900s)
The concept of indeterminate sentence in the European criminal law doctrine
The formation of the European dual-track system
The "new penology" as a constitutional matter : the crisis of legality in the rule of law and the Rechtsstaat (1900s to 1930s)
Nulla poena sine lege and sentencing discretion
From repression to prevention : the uncertain borders between jurisdiction and administration
The constitutional conundrum of the limits to preventive detention
Conclusions.