Suicide in modern court practice
Keywords:
Suicide, History of Criminal Law, Judicial doctrine, Judicial practice
Abstract
The paper analyzes, in a criminal process from the late sixteenth century, the alterations that experiments the theory of suicide as a crime –elaborated by jurists and theologians during the Modern Age— in the judicial practice, particularly with respect to its causes, evidences and punishments.Format
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Sandoval Parra, V. (2018). Suicide in modern court practice. Cuadernos de Historia del Derecho, 25, 113-136. https://doi.org/10.5209/CUHD.61876
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