Hammurabi’s influence on punishment and modern society
When reading Hammurabi’s code and reaching rule #22: “If anyone is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.”1 We may agree that it is or it is not the most suitable punishment; however, such punishment is considered just when the code is written to enforce the importance of these rules. In today’s society, the punishment for similar crimes became more lenient than the codes during Hammurabi’s rule as society has grown more merciful and not all crimes are considered equal.
Today the code is applicable to the definition of the crimes only, but the punishments for them has shifted over time from the literal letter of the code to a more what we would call …show more content…
If the harm caused is minor then the perpetrator may not receive any punishment depending on the person being aggressed. However if the harm caused is major the person causing the harm may lose freedom, or even life in certain circumstances and places.
The meaning of this particular rule is to respect your parents and it has come across society even now, however the modern day punishment is entirely up to the father or the parent that is being aggressed while in the old days there was no compromise as to the deliverance of 2 Hammurabi, Code of Hammurabi, Law#195 the punishment. This had a strong impact on children of any age to ensure their obedience towards their parents and especially their fathers. This rule is gender specific as it clearly specifies the father and it shows how the society back then was clearly ruled by men and certain rules have been created specifically to protect them while punishing severely the ones that would cause them any harm thus harming the household. This rule is very similar to the …show more content…
These laws have been issued by men to protect men and crops and land and there are none that provide protection to women unless they are being clearly and obviously abused by their husbands or household. The code itself is similar to a lot of the Bible teaching, and some may argue that the Bible teachings have been inspired by the code as it predates the Bible by about 1750 years. The code is well structured and it scales the punishments based on social status, slave or free man. The code also includes laws for contracts, trade, household and family, sexual behavior. There is only one law that should be enforced upon officials and that again shows that in the time the code was created social status played a major role and the rules were written by the officials in order to regulate the people they ruled over.
Specific areas covered by the code are no longer viable in the modern days, like slander rules and slavery rules. There are rules that have travelled through time and are still applied today, like duties of workers, theft, food and trade. Current version of the Hammurabi code is included in the penal law or civil law of every state and it is remarkably similarly structured
When reading Hammurabi’s code and reaching rule #22: “If anyone is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.”1 We may agree that it is or it is not the most suitable punishment; however, such punishment is considered just when the code is written to enforce the importance of these rules. In today’s society, the punishment for similar crimes became more lenient than the codes during Hammurabi’s rule as society has grown more merciful and not all crimes are considered equal.
Today the code is applicable to the definition of the crimes only, but the punishments for them has shifted over time from the literal letter of the code to a more what we would call …show more content…
If the harm caused is minor then the perpetrator may not receive any punishment depending on the person being aggressed. However if the harm caused is major the person causing the harm may lose freedom, or even life in certain circumstances and places.
The meaning of this particular rule is to respect your parents and it has come across society even now, however the modern day punishment is entirely up to the father or the parent that is being aggressed while in the old days there was no compromise as to the deliverance of 2 Hammurabi, Code of Hammurabi, Law#195 the punishment. This had a strong impact on children of any age to ensure their obedience towards their parents and especially their fathers. This rule is gender specific as it clearly specifies the father and it shows how the society back then was clearly ruled by men and certain rules have been created specifically to protect them while punishing severely the ones that would cause them any harm thus harming the household. This rule is very similar to the …show more content…
These laws have been issued by men to protect men and crops and land and there are none that provide protection to women unless they are being clearly and obviously abused by their husbands or household. The code itself is similar to a lot of the Bible teaching, and some may argue that the Bible teachings have been inspired by the code as it predates the Bible by about 1750 years. The code is well structured and it scales the punishments based on social status, slave or free man. The code also includes laws for contracts, trade, household and family, sexual behavior. There is only one law that should be enforced upon officials and that again shows that in the time the code was created social status played a major role and the rules were written by the officials in order to regulate the people they ruled over.
Specific areas covered by the code are no longer viable in the modern days, like slander rules and slavery rules. There are rules that have travelled through time and are still applied today, like duties of workers, theft, food and trade. Current version of the Hammurabi code is included in the penal law or civil law of every state and it is remarkably similarly structured