In the early Renaissance, the culture of "original desire" had a strong impact on the Hebrew-Christian value system which had been entrenched for a thousand years, and Westerners fell into the carnival of releasing the original desire. Literature in the late 15th century drew this all-destroying frenzy into the buffer zone, where it swirled and accumulated, effectively rewinding the passions and orgies of the pre-Renaissance period. In the field of regulation, In Utopia, Thomas More, an English writer, systematically expounded the essence of the thought of criminal classical school and the criminal social school involving the ideas of legislation, judicature and punishment system, which profoundly influenced the formation and development of later classical criminal law thought.

Chunyuan Liu. The thought of criminal law implied in Utopia. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2023), Vol. 5, Issue 4: 31-37. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2023.050406.

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