SOCIOLOGICAL AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVES OF GUILT
SOCIOLOGICAL AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVES OF GUILT

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to review the main meanings of the notion of guilt, based on the premise that prior the substantiation of legal systems, the term had a different social significance. Testimony is the fact that even today some tribes in the Java region do not have in the vocabulary the word “guilt.” Also studies on students, demonstrates that learning pro-social behavior, is based on the development of psychological mechanisms such as internalization of guilt and effortful control of anti-social behavior. To realize and appreciate a fact as being good or bad it is necessary that the specific fact has a representation in the individual conscience, therefore, when it comes to the question of guilt it is necessary, for justice representatives to be convinced, that the one hold responsible has the representation of the acts that he committed. Based on these ideas we will analyze the main areas from which the guilt derives.

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