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In pre-revolutionary France criminal justice is regulated by the Ordinance Louis XIV of 1670. This Ordinance provides for torture as the major method of investigation and for the death penalty as the most commonly used form of punishment. One of the major concerns of French eighteenthcentury philosophers is therefore a radical reform of criminal justice and its humanisation in the spirit of Enlightenment. Many philosophers take part in this battle, including Montesquieu, Voltaire and the Encyclopedias. This philosophical battle was strongly influenced by the publication in France of Beccaria's work On Crimes and Punishments in 1765.
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Marek Mosakowski
- Wydział Filologiczny Instytut Filologii Romańskiej Katedra Literatur Romańskich
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- Category:
- Articles
- Type:
- artykuły w czasopismach recenzowanych i innych wydawnictwach ciągłych
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Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny
pages 403 - 414,
ISSN: 0023-5911 - Language:
- French
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Bibliographic description:
- Mosakowski M., Ślęzak J.: L'humanisation de la justice criminelle dans la France desLumieres// Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny. -., nr. 3 (2015), s.403-414
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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