Objectives and system of punishments in the Indian Penal Code of 1860
Abstract
The article deals with the historical and legal analysis of the punishment (its essence, purposes and principles of appointment) in colonial and post-colonial India, the main criminal-penological models, and the development of certain types of punishments and their legislative regulation in the Indian Penal Code of 1860.
Received: 01/01/2018
Accepted: 01/30/2018
Accepted date: 02/27/2018
Keywords: common law tradition, mixed legal system, colonial law, Hindu law, codification of law, criminal law, punishment, death penalty
Available in the on-line version with: 27.02.2018
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