Cart penalty
The cart penalty is a work penalty for the community, also in the form of chain detention and should not be confused with chain penalty . It was introduced at the end of the 17th century in place of physical punishment (torture) and became the widespread labor punishment in the 18th century. It was mainly used for offenses against the community, for example, withdrawal from military service or prostitution. The offender had to pull the heavy cart with stones in the quarry. The winged word: “go in the cart” is derived from this. While male offenders had to do heavy physical labor building fortresses and roads, female offenders (mostly prostitutes) were used to clean the streets.
The cart penalty was a labor, imprisonment and honor penalty . Kant already remarked :
“... everyone should have the freedom to choose between death and cart punishment, I say, the honest man chooses death, the rogue chooses the cart; so it brings with it the nature of the human mind. For the former knows something that he values even higher than life: namely, honor; the other still considers a life covered with shame to be better than not being at all (animam praeferre pudori. Juven.) "
Even in today's penal system, mostly juvenile offenders can serve their imprisonment through community service.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedrich Merzbacher / HRG. II 659: hardly any practical significance in the 18th century
- ↑ to prefer life to honor.
- ↑ Kant, Immanuel (Collection) . Work edition. Volume 8: The Metaphysics of Morals . Published by Wilhelm Weischedel, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main. 5th edition 1982.