01:202:203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cesare Beccaria, Eye For An Eye, Jeremy Bentham
19 Nov 2020
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Greatest good for the greatest number of people. Punishment from the middles ages to the american revolution. Lex talionis was the law of retaliation and underlay the laws of anglo-saxon society during the early middle ages; crime was a private affair; vengeance was a duty to be carried out by the person or family wronged. The age of reason and correctional reform. Liberalism, rationality, equality, individualism dominated social and political thinking. Corrections in colonial america followed english ideas and practices. Punishment is marked by three elements (packer): Purpose is not to compensate someone injured by the offense nor better. Infliction of pain because of the offense offender"s condition but to prevent further offenses or to inflict what is thought to be deserved pain on the offender. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth . Eliminate offender"s ability to commit further crimes. Lock em up and throw away the key .
