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УГОЛОВНОЕ ПРАВО И НАКАЗАНИЕ В СРЕДНИЕ ВЕКА В СЛОВАКИИ
Criminal law and punishment in the middle ages in Slovakia

Author(s): Róbert Jáger
Subject(s): Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Gospodarki Euroregionalnej im. Alcide De Gasperi w Józefowie
Keywords: history of law; Slovak republic; middle ages; modern times; imprisonment; alternative punishments

Summary/Abstract: The paper describes the development of the system of punishment in our territory from the oldest times up to the modern times. It points out the fundamental differencefrom the current legal situation: while there is currently the most commonly imposedpunishment, imprisonment, in the past there was a «diverse range» of punishment,with imprisonment (as we know it today) at the earliest time ever there. Even in laterdevelopmental stages, when it already existed, the motivation of its imposition wasdifferent from the present and its imposition was still a rare phenomenon.

  • Issue Year: 44/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 63-70
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian