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Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs 15. Jahrgang Heft 1/2025, pp. 28-46, 2025/07/06
Zeitschrift der Kommission für Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
The fundamental change in the penal system at the turn of the 19th century with its transition to custodial sentences as the central sanction brought about major challenges to the state administration of the Habsburg Monarchy. From the middle of the 19th century, the authorities used a new instrument in their efforts to establish a well ordered and organised penitentiary system. As an early form of outsourcing of public tasks, the operation of entire prisons was conferred to Catholic women’s congregations, which took over manage-ment and administration. This paper asks which considerations of the authorities as well as the congrega-tions motivated this model, how their integration into the penal system was organised and whether it proved successful. To this end, it will first look at the historical context of administrative reforms and the penal system around the middle of the 19th century on the one hand and the founding of charitable congregations on the other, before focussing on the specific arrangements between the central authorities and the religious orders and the role they played in the prisons.
Keywords: criminal law – Habsburg Empire – penitentiary system – religious congregations