Code of honor
The code of honor (also French comment ) is an often unwritten set of rules about good behavior. The Duden describes it as "the entirety of the norms applicable in a society or group relating to honor and honest behavior".
The members of professional groups , estates and castes or orders submit themselves and their organization to these rules of conduct , which have emerged gradually over time or which they have written themselves . On the one hand, submission to a code is associated with corresponding obligations . Within such an order, however, it also prescribes privileges for its members, which non-members are not granted. Whoever submits to the Code, may expect others treated and respected and accordingly respected to be.
Often codes of honor are also assigned to mafia organizations (see Organized Crime ). In particular, the Cosa Nostra coined the term "Honorable Society" ( "leggi d'Onore e d'omerta") verbally announced their rules in their induction ceremony and as a priority the code of silence of Omertà formulated against state authorities such as police and legal authorities. Furthermore, an unconditional obedience to the rapressentante - one's own "family" - as well as to always tell the truth among "men of honor" is required in the regulations. Claims that the Mafia would not act against children and women or that their greats would unselfishly support charitable purposes, however, belong to the realm of fictionality , according to the criminologist Frank Neubacher .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Code of Honor in duden.de, accessed on May 23, 2015
- ^ Frank Neubacher : Everyday conceptions of crime: individual and social significance of images of crime for shaping life , LIT Verlag Münster, 2004, p. 168 ff. Online in Google books
