(CEP USM, 2024) Ciobanu, Igor; Cotruță, Artur; Negruța, Ana
The history of criminal law bears witness both to the continuous effort to
keep under control the manifestations contrary to the social order by sanctioning
the most serious forms of these manifestations, as well as to the concern for the
continuous humanization of punishment. Proof of this is the very steps of the
repressive reaction. The repressive reaction has taken different forms over the
centuries, starting from the unlimited revenge based on the instinctive reaction,
outside of any regulation, to the legally regulated reaction and strictly controlled by
the state authority.
