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OTKA - Dr. Bató, Szilvia

Offences Against Life And Corporal Integrity During The First Half Of The 19th Century

Offences Against Life And Corporal Integrity During The First Half Of The 19th Century

(Summary)


The aim of the planned research project is to reveal and present the characteristics of the violent offences against persons from the aspect of the criminal history and the historical criminology through the 19th century’s judicial practice of three counties: Békés, Csanád and Csongrád.

The research may lead to results for the Hungarian Legal History in two aspects. On the one hand, it tries to define the “essential elements of a crime against life and corporal integrity in case law” by the elaboration of the contemporary attempts of codification, the legal literature and the judicial practice. Furthermore, it demonstrates their differentiation process on the field of the Hungarian penal law. On the other hand gives us data regarding the morphology of the violent offences from the time preceding the development of the criminology, shows the subjective part (victims and perpetrators) and the reasons for the commitment of these crimes (bravado, alcohol) and reveals the preventive measures of the authorities. This project partly presents the criminal environment that characterized Hungary before the era of the criminal codification. Beside this, it can give the basis for the scientific research of the theory of the criminal law after 1848.