Ethics of Sin and Punishment
https://doi.org/10.17803/2713-0533.2024.4.30.741-760
Abstract
The aim of the paper is exploring the ethical foundations and approaches to crime and punishment relying on the close moral roots of criminal law. Our further aims are to prove value-based approach to the basic concepts of criminal law. Primarily we intend to apply legal theoretical methods to perceive the relationship between criminal law and morality. Our ethical approach is based on Christian ethics relying on Greek and Jewish foundations. We seek comparison of the ethical conceptual possibilities of crime and punishment and the basic concepts of criminal law. We find out that the term crime is not used in criminal law, but it builds on this fundamentally ethical concept. The indeterministic conception of criminal guilt as the basis of blameworthiness also appears in St. Augustine’s ethics, based on Greek and Jewish legal and ethical considerations. The social necessity and proportionality of punishment is based on the foundations of Christian social teaching. Some elements of the Restoration appearing in the modern criminal law approach reflect the values of the ethics of Christian punishment. According to the Christian approach the punishment is good if the sinner comes repentant and it leads to reconcilation between commitment and victim.
About the Authors
M. Tihanyi
Ludovika University of Public Service
Hungary
Hungary
Miklós Tihanyi, PhD, Associate Professor Faculty of Law Enforcement, Department of Public Safety
Google Scholar ID: 7G_TTDEAAAAJ
Scopus ID: 57220636874
Budapest
V. Vári
Ludovika University of Public Service
Hungary
Hungary
Vince Vári, PhD, Associate Professor Faculty of Law Enforcement, Department of Criminal Procedure Law
Google Scholar ID: M5fji7UAAAAJ
Scopus ID: 57220637516
Budapest
K. A. Krasnova
North-Western branch of the Russian State University of Justice
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Kristina A. Krasnova, Cand. Sci. (Law), Associate Professor, Criminal Law Department Head of St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Criminological Association named after Azalia Ivanovna Dolgova
Researcher ID: O-3863-2017
Scopus ID: 57208773723
St. Petersburg
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Tihanyi M., Vári V., Krasnova K.A. Ethics of Sin and Punishment. Kutafin Law Review. 2024;11(4):741. https://doi.org/10.17803/2713-0533.2024.4.30.741-760
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