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- Title
Politieke misdadigers of eerloze criminelen? De invloed van de opstanden van 1848/1849 op de plaats van het begrip eerloosheidin het Duits en Nederlands strafrecht.
- Authors
de Groot, Timon
- Abstract
This article tries to explain why the notion of infamy was removed from the Dutch penal code of 1886, whereas this notion was still prominently defended in the German Reich Penal Code of 1871. The explanation is sought in the circulation of books containing reports of participants in the 1848/9 revolutions in the German states and their subsequent incarceration. It is argued that accounts of the suffering of these political prisoners made such a lasting impression on German legislators that they decided not to remove the rulings on infamy from the Reich Penal Code. The absence of such accounts in the Dutch national context, however, enabled Dutch legislators to continue along a path taken earlier towards abolishment.In the end, the analysis provides an alternative perspective on the relationship between the experience and mediation of suffering and the historical development of penal reform in western Europe.
- Subjects
CRIMINALS; POLITICAL prisoners; LEGISLATORS; INFAMY (Law); CRIMINAL codes
- Publication
Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 2019, Vol 132, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
0040-7518
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5117/TVGESCH2019.1.003.GROOT