This edited volume aims to contribute to the understanding of the metamorphoses of knowledge on the ‘criminal question’ as it circulated, in different directions, to and from the Argentine context between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, analysing the dynamics of adaptation, rejection and transaction between the Global North and the Global South. equality. But is equality perhaps not also a concept that inadequately describes the complexity of normative orders? Highly differentiated societies with a multitude of collective identities and functional rationalities are in a permanent state of tension with this legal postulate. The contributions to this volume examine how this tension has developed in Europe and Latin America over the last 200 years

This book is included in DOAB.