La «invenzione» del carcere, tra carità cristiana e illuminismo penale (secc. XVII-XVIII)

The imprisonment, from mere temporary custody pending the conclusion of the judgment, becomes an autonomous and gradable penalty through the work of the Church in the modern age. A vivid representation of the conditions of the prisons of the Papal States is given by G.B. Scanaroli in his work De vis...

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Published inDNA Di Nulla Academia Vol. 3; no. 2; pp. 108 - 117
Main Author Elio Tavilla
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Bologna 01.05.2023
Subjects
cesare beccaria
forced labor
giovan battista scanaroli
jeremy bentham
ludovico antonio muratori
prisons
sentence
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Summary:The imprisonment, from mere temporary custody pending the conclusion of the judgment, becomes an autonomous and gradable penalty through the work of the Church in the modern age. A vivid representation of the conditions of the prisons of the Papal States is given by G.B. Scanaroli in his work De visitatione carceratorum (1655), which inspired  L.A. Muratori in his treatises La carità cristiana (1723) and Della pubblica felicità (1749). Finally, the eighteenth-century reformism on the one hand expressed hostility to the cruelty of punishment, including prison (C. Beccaria), for the other conceived forced labor as a “utilitarian” way to exploit the detention of prisoners (J. Bentham).
ISSN:2724-5179
DOI:10.6092/issn.2724-5179/16848