CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Eye For An Eye, Summary Offence, Consequentialism
8 Dec 2015
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14-15th centuries : rise in use of death penalty. On the penitentiary system in united states and its application to france (1833) Immanuel kant, the metaphysical elements of justice, 1797. But all punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil. Upon the principle of utility, if it ought at all to be admitted, it ought only to be admitted in as far as it promises to exclude some greater evil. Jeremy bentham, the principles of morals and legislation, 1781. If a man has broken into a house he shall be killed before the breach and buried there. If a man"s wife, for the sake of another, has caused her husband to be killed, that woman shall be impaled. If a son has struck his father, his hands shall be cut off. If a man has knocked out the eye of a patrician, his eye shall be knocked out.
