РЕЦИДИВЪТ В РИМСКОТО НАКАЗАТЕЛНО ПРАВО
RECIDIVISM IN ROMAN CRIMINAL LAW

Summary/Abstract: It has long been doubted whether the Romans knew the notion that we call recidivism in modern terminology, for which the Latin language lacks a nomen. However, the sources attest cases of aggravation of the punishment for those who repeat the same offence after a previous sentence or a coercive sanction. It is difficult therefore to deny the existence of the ‘thing’ that in the Roman legal system is closely related to the forms of procedure. It will be the jurists, especially in the Severan age, to identify the structural elements of the figure and the ratio for the harsher punitive treatment of the recidivist. The tendency in the Late Imperial age to consider that of recidivist a real subjective condition opens the way to the subsequent developments of modern criminal legal science.

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