TY  - UNPD
A1  - Damme, Rafael van
T1  - How the principle of guilt purified criminal law from sacrificial remnants : a Girardian interpretation
T2  - LOEWE-Schwerpunkt "Außergerichtliche und gerichtliche Konfliktlösung" : Arbeitspapier = LOEWE research focus "Extrajudicial and judicial conflict resolution" : working paper ; 16
N2  - In ‘Strafe für fremde Schuld’ Harald Maihold uncovered how a doctrine of surrogate punishment in the legal treatises of the Salamanca school gradually gave way to the principle of guilt. This meant that punishment eventually could only be inflicted upon a culprit and no longer upon an innocent. We will use René Girard’s philosophy of (the disruption of) scapegoat mechanisms and sacrifice to develop a coherent interpretation not only of how this institution of surrogate  punishment functioned, how it selected its victims and the way it was legitimated, but also of the theology that formed its background. We argue that most of what surrogate punishment is about can be grasped in two words: sacrificial logic. The elimination of surrogation from criminal law would then correspond to the rejection of this logic, an evolution which could be interpreted as a desacralisation or secularisation of criminal law under the influence of the upcoming principle of guilt.
T3  - LOEWE-Schwerpunkt "Außergerichtliche und gerichtliche Konfliktlösung" : Arbeitspapier = LOEWE research focus "Extrajudicial and judicial conflict resolution" : working paper - 16 
KW  - René Girard
KW  - Harald Maihold
KW  - surrogate punishment
KW  - Philosophy of criminal law
KW  - Principle of guilt
KW  - Sacrifice
KW  - Scapegoat mechanism
KW  - Early modern criminal law
KW  - Secularisation
KW  - Theology of punishment
KW  - René Girard
KW  - Harald Maihold
KW  - Strafe für fremde Schuld
KW  - Strafrechtsphilosophie
KW  - Schuldprinzip
KW  - Opfer
KW  - Sündenbock-Mechanismus
KW  - Strafrecht der Frühen Neuzeit
KW  - Säkularisierung
KW  - Straftheologie
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/32901
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-329013
SP  - 1
EP  - 43
PB  - Max-Planck-Inst. für europäische Rechtsgeschichte
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -