UIDP/AIDP: 125 ans au service de la Justice Criminelle, de l’Humanité et des Droit de l’Homme

Abstract

It is common knowledge that he AIDP, established in 1924, was a reactivation and renewal of the UIDP, founded in 1889 by von Liszt from Germany, Prins from Belgium, and van Hamel from the Netherlands.36 For that reason, the AIDP is, without any doubt, the oldest international association of criminal science. As correctly stated by H.-H. Jescheck (see Document 15), who studies the history of the association, the AIDP cannot deny the establishment, mission and work of the UIDP before the Great War of 1914-1918. The UIDP was created in an era in which the Nation States in Europe had to address serious social problems and increased criminality. It was also an era of political turmoil resulting in the creation of the first liberal and socialist parties and the labor unions. The classic model of laissez faire and laissez passer based on economic liberalism had created too much inequality in society. In his famous 1891 “Rerum Novarum” Encyclical on the Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor, Pope Leo XIII made a strong plea in favor of states that promote social justice through the protection of rights. He described the prevailing atmosphere:37 That the spirit of revolutionary change, which has long been disturbing the nations of the world, should have passed beyond the sphere of politics and made its influence felt in the cognate sphere of practical economics is not surprising. The