The crime of punishment : reassessing classical penal theory -- The gods that failed : positivist criminology and the legacy of the International Penal and Penitentiary Commission -- Retributivism in the age of human rights -- Punishment and the origins of international human rights law : an uncensored account -- The untold story of the Howard League's campaign for an international prisoners' convention -- The great force of history : development of the global human rights regime -- The evolution and interpretation of human rights norms and penal aims : a new standard of civilization?