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339 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. iv (1962)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0339 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD This volume of THE ANNALS grew out of the initiative of M. Marc Ancel, Jus- tice of the Supreme Court of France (Cour de Cassation) and Secretary-General of the Institute of Comparative Law of the University of Paris. Some years ago, M. Ancel undertook, on behalf of the French Center of Comparative Law, to edit a collection of European penal codes, the first volume of which appeared in 1956. Having thus brought together the legislative texts of a great family of related codes, M. Ancel turned his attention to the contrasting, largely uncodified penal systems of England and the United States. Professor Leon Radzinowicz of Cambridge University was invited to organize a collaboration of British penalists to de- scribe their criminal law. The resulting work, Introduction au Droit Criminel de l'Angleterre, was published in 1959. Thereafter, the undersigned was asked to supervise preparation of a similar ac- count of the criminal law of the United States. These essays, then, were prepared for European readers who, though trained in their own legal systems, are likely to have only general familiarity with Anglo-American law. The authors have there- fore avoided excessive detail or technicality as well as any effort or pretense to give an encyclopedic restatement of the law. The aim is to present a picture of the American penal system that will be interesting to, and comprehensible by, the educated, nonprofessional reader. Publication in advance of the French transla- tion is by permission of M. Ancel and the French Center of Comparative Law. LoUIs B. SCHWARTZ iv

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