Outrage
Since the Middle Ages, sacrilege ( ahd. Fravili " boldness ") has denoted arrogance, violence, or bad will. He who commits it is wrong (is a wrongdoer ).
The noun “Frevel” is derived from a submerged adjective frevel , which still exists in the form of wicked . The further etymology is unclear.
In compositions like forest crime it becomes clear that it also has the meaning of malicious and willful assault.
Sacrifice in religion is the desecration of the holy . In the ecclesiastical sphere, someone is considered a criminal who violates the property and persons of the church and who - especially in the Catholic Church - disregards the ecclesiastical principles of faith. Religion uses the term sin here .
In the German legal history of the Middle Ages a distinction was made between “outrage” (outrage against something sanctified, which drag it down into the world of the profane) and “ injury ” (the most serious type of offense).
The iniquity could be atoned for, e.g. B. through sacrifice or punishment such as chastisement and hair cutting. Injury was punished by mutilation or execution .
sociology
Following on from his distinction between “community” and “society” , Ferdinand Tönnies has in his criminal sociological writings between the normal types of the “wrongdoer” as a criminal against the “community” (e.g. by jealousy murder ) and the “ crook ” as a criminal against the "Society" differentiated.
See also
literature
- Outrage . In: Prussian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 3 , issue 6 (edited by Eberhard von Künßberg ). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - publication date between 1935 and 1938).
