Criminology and Economic Ideas in the Age of Enlightenment

Q2 Arts and Humanities

History of Economic Ideas Pub Date : 2009-01-01 DOI:10.1400/121157

F. Simon

引用次数: 3

Abstract

My purpose is to point out that during the age of Enlightenment, and its later nineteenth- century expressions, the most relevant works on law contain examples of economic ideas about criminal phenomena and their legal repression. I will comment the analytic conclusions which the authors of the time got to, with reference to specific questions such as the definition of crime, the determination of punishment, the judicial procedure. I will take into account some of the most representative European writers: Montesquieu, Beccaria and Bentham. The authors I selected share the characteristic of being all exponents of utilitarianism and of presenting elements which forerun neoclassical economics in the method and analysis they employ. Besides, they have all worked out models for criminal repression which are quite similar to the contemporary model conceived by Gary Becker.

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启蒙时代的犯罪学与经济思想

我的目的是要指出，在启蒙时代及其19世纪后期的表达中，最相关的法律著作包含了关于犯罪现象及其法律压制的经济思想的例子。我将评论当时的作者就诸如犯罪的定义、刑罚的确定、司法程序等具体问题所得出的分析性结论。我将考虑一些最具代表性的欧洲作家:孟德斯鸠、贝卡利亚和边沁。我所选择的作者都是功利主义的倡导者，并且在他们所采用的方法和分析中呈现出超越新古典经济学的元素。此外，他们都提出了犯罪镇压的模型，这些模型与加里·贝克尔(Gary Becker)构想的当代模型非常相似。

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