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Resumen "Public Revenge"
Resumen "Public Revenge"
Derecho Penal
Matricula: 814913
12/09/2017
Public revenge is when people were punished in public, with scourges and some
other methods of torture to conclude with their execution.
Thus, since society exists as such - from the earliest human groupings, man knows
constant aspects of social life, to the point that today is not considered criminality as
organized society, only being abnormal the abrupt increases or decreases in rates
of crime. Based on this, they have been identified as characteristics of the criminal
During the period of public revenge, a distinction is made between private and public
crimes, according to the fact that directly injures the interests of individuals or public
order. This is when the stage called "public revenge" or "political conception"
appears; the courts are judging on behalf of the community. This was an immense
epoch, of rewarding and at most intimidating purposes, for the purpose of general
prevention, in which it was hoped to use the offender for the benefit of the State
(mines, galleys).
The time of Public revenge is deposited in the public power the social vindication
revenge on behalf of the community or persons whose legal assets have been
injured or endangered. The criminal repression that sought to maintain at all costs
the public tranquility, becomes a true public revenge that came to excess
transfer of justice to someone who represents the interests of the community, initially
in its most primitive manifestation to organize the State was transferred to special
bodies (judges and courts) impartial settlement of penalties from the offended and
limiting their right to revenge. An entire probative system was organized and the
penalty was objectified and independent of the subject who indicated it (legislator),