This is an updated second edition of the English translation of the Italian Code of criminal procedure, with a Preface by the Italian Minister for Justice Andrea Orlando and four Introductory essays: the first by the co-editor Luca Luparia, the second by the co-editor Mitja Gialuz, the third by the co-editor Federica Scarpa and the two translators Katia Peruzzo and Gianluca Pontrandolfo, and the fourth by James Brannan, Senior Translator at the European Court of Human Rights.