The Bourbon monarchy and prison legislation in Sicily
Two competing plans for reform (1826–1830)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12535220 |
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| Authors | Simona Fazio (0000-0002-5408-4241, University of Messina, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 369-383 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Italy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1353-2944 • E-ISSN: 1469-9877 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13532944.2014.939163 |
| OpenAlex | W2059967531 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
The nineteenth century was a critical phase in the construction of European penitentiary systems. The eighteenth century had seen the evolution of the concept of punishment and the corresponding development of the practice of imprisonment as central to new ideas about penal sanctions. As a result, between 1830 and 1848 grand plans to reform prison systems were put forward in almost all the larger European countries. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies played its part in this process: an innovative reform plan was developed here, ahead of the rest of the Italian peninsula, which was fully implemented between 1832 and 1845 but had its origins in an earlier period, being given its initial impetus by modernisation on the legislative front. Sicily was particularly rich in terms of legal experimentation in this area. Here, informed by the most recent developments in contemporary science, plans to reform prison legislation were produced as early as the 1820s; these attest to the interest with which lawyers, philanthropists and government officials approached the issue. The analysis of two plans discovered in the Archivio di Stato in Palermo is especially helpful in demonstrating the existence of a ‘workshop for prison legislation’ that addressed concrete problems while also being the manifestation of a sophisticated legal culture
Government (linguistics · Imprisonment · Legislation · Legislature · Modernization theory · Political science · Prison · Punishment (psychology · Sanctions · Sociology · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Medieval and Early Modern Justice
| Highly cited | No |
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