The Image Of Death Penalty And Cultural Psychology

As an organized systematic deprivation of life-similar behavior, the history of the death penalty as long as the human. This original old growth or death penalty, not just legal problems, but on ideas and psychological, socio-cultural issues. Social cultural psychology gave birth to the idea of punishment, and continue to have an impact. Is both a cultural and psychological concepts of physical forms of punishment, such as shell-like protected. Discussion on abolition of the death penalty is essentially a discussion on the penalty issue. How much discussion on whether the death penalty should exist or existed, in fact, is discussing the applicability of social and cultural psychology in the moral order. Disappearance of the death penalty could make society a better place, this prediction can be found from the cultural psychology answer to the question.Same origin state of law and literature. Literary questions, legal questions. Literary creation and modification of the framework of critical thought of making it with the saboteurs. Solidification group consensus, clear and legal, it is ideological and establishment of the framework and the guardians. Interaction between law and literature coexist in parallel, forming with the geographical characteristics of the legal system and legal concepts. As an important part of the literary novel, it plays a role of spreading ideas and refine cultural psychology. Through an interpretation of the novel death in literature to study the concepts behind the cultural psychology of the death penalty.Rise and fall reflect the evolution of social and cultural psychology of death penalty, the death penalty plays a special role in the concept of cultural image in the public. Psychological death concept comes from taboo. Fundamental rights of the individual before the State and the law. With public power and away from personal monopoly rights to the death penalty, death penalty led by personal ethics to the will to power. Rule of Community law into the ancestral weapons of power, not bound by human rights wayward and, when the lift is the exquisite decoration of public power, falls are decapitated and civil rights public opinion into consideration.Enlightenment novels as a carrier, uphold the principle of humanism reflection and criticism on the old idea of punishment. Agree with humanistic concept of the right to life is a basic human right, and respecting the civilization concept of humanity, has been widely accepted as literary works and make the penalty system along the path changes in humanism and rationalism. Sandalwood penalty, a novel from the reflection on the culture of torture, to the Notre Dame de Paris, in the spirit of criticism of the death penalty, people driven by the thought of civilization and progress, "sinner inhuman" ideas excessive penalty to the penalty under humane transition. Ideas shaping systems, systems shaped people. From Dickens ’ "many faces" audience to the death penalty in Lu Xun’s novels of the medicine of thought, showing versatility of people facing the death penalty, public opinion, showed that a fair legal system is a necessary condition of creating benign moral people. From the Ming and Qing dynasties detective-style fictions in the arena under the "Messiah complex" outlaws of the Marsh against the death penalty in "hero complex", showing in the system of the rule of law lost belief after the collapse of the Justice of the death penalty, thus proving that a bad system will not be able to appear in "good death". From the individual dilemma facing public power in the trial, to choose life or freedom of thought in the betting choices, and from green to death each soul in the process, highlighting when life hovering between life and death, and humane care of the precious.Of human-centered thought in literary works is an important cultural foundation building a society ruled by law. Many ideas for breakthrough thinking trap, caused the death penalty idea change plays an important role. Humanitarian is a catalyst for the reform of the death penalty, was the spirit of death penalty reform principles.