Religion like a moral basis for punishment
Journal Title: Юридические науки и образование - Year 2016, Vol 47, Issue 47
Abstract
Religion is based on traditions and customs, that is an experience of hundreds generations, gives its norms a sacral character and therefore transforms them into cruel standard of behaviour, in obligatory for everybody stereotype. Idea of God’s punishment drastically affected on criminal legal imagination about punishment, though it created in the basis not only the centuries religious but national historical, psychological, social particularities of each people. Considering an issue on the ways of religion’s influence, religious sources, religious law, doctrines and ideas on institute of moral beginnings of punishment, one should note that this impact carried out as by direct so and indirect way.
Authors and Affiliations
Ilham Rahimov
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