CONCEPȚIILE MODERNE CU PRIVIRE LA APLICAREA PEDEPSEI

Abstract

Modern conceptions of punishment bring back the retributive ideas of criminal sanctions. This time, retribution no longer appears as a revenge of society against the criminal, as a brutal robbery with him, but as an equal weighing of the two factors, deed and guilt, on the one hand, and punishment, on the other. Suffering, the essence of punishment, must be met with a justly proportionate application of the punishment. Promoting modern conceptions of punishment does not mean returning to the idea of blind revenge on the part of society, to causing irrational suffering only to frighten the criminal and those around him. The idea of retribution, of recompense for the committed deed, does not mean a robbery up to the physical elimination of the perpetrator, but, in a modern vision, it means a rational reaction of society to his antisocial acts.