Crime, punishment and liberty

• Autores: Frederick Rosen
• Localización: History of political thought, ISSN 0143-781X, Vol. 20, Nº 1, 1999, págs. 173-185
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay considers the relationship between crime, punishment and individual liberty in three main thinkers of the Enlightenment: Montesquieu, Beccaria and Bentham. It examines the development of the idea of a proportion between crime and punishment and challenges the view that the eighteenth-century Enlightenment was engaged in the creation of a new form of oppression through a system of rational punishment which was intended to replace that of the medieval period.