Abstract

PINTO, Frederico de Lacerda da Costa. Hespanha is a Sage. e-JPH [online]. 2020, vol.18, n.1, pp.54-58.  Epub June 30, 2020. ISSN 1645-6432.  https://doi.org/10.26300/cpcy-4c89.

This personal statement emphasizes the importance of two studies by António Hespanha for certain aspects of criminal law in Portugal during the period of the late Enlightenment (the last quarter of the eighteenth century) and the nineteenth century, namely the influence of criminological positivism and anthropological positivism on the Portuguese criminal doctrine of that period (1890-1910).

Keywords : Criminal law; Enlightenment; Criminal positivism; Anthropological positivism in Portugal.

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