BÉRENGER, M.

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Des moyens propres à généraliser en France le système pénitentiaire, First edition. Alphonse Bérenger (1785-1866) was instrumental in shaping the new and more humanitarian criminal code of France. He dedicated his life to judicial reform and criminal law, and towards the end of his career focused on juvenile crime and comparisons between the penal systems of France and England.An expanded edition of 135 pages, with plates, was printed in Paris by the Imprimerie Royale in the same year.

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