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  • An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

    by Cesare Beccaria, Voltaire ...
    Penal Laws, so considerable a part of every system of legislation, and of so great importance to the happiness, peace and security of every member of society, are still so imperfect, and are attended with so many unnecessary circumstances of cruelty in all nations, that an attempt to reduce them to the standard of reason must be interesting to all mankind. It is not surprising then, that this ... Read more

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  • An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

    by Cesare Beccaria, Adolph Caso ...
    An Essay on Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria is one of the foundational works of modern law and justice — a concise, revolutionary manifesto that transformed criminal philosophy across the world. First published in 1764, when its author was barely twenty-six, this small book ignited the Enlightenment's campaign against cruelty, superstition, and arbitrary power. Beccaria's arguments for ... Read more

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  • On Crimes and Punishments and Other Writings

    by Cesare Beccaria, Aaron Thomas ...
    Translated by Jeremy Parzen ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Published in 1764, On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794) courted both success and controversy in Europe and North America. Enlightenment luminaries and enlightened monarchs alike lauded the text and looked to it for ideas that might help guide the various reform projects of the day. The equality of every citizen before the law, the right to a fair trial, the abolition of the ... Read more

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  • An Essay on Crimes and Punishments (Annotated)

    Easy to Read Layout - With a Commentary by M. de Voltaire.

    by Cesare Beccaria ...
    A punishment may not be an act of violence, of one or of many, against a private member of society, it should be public, immediate and necessary; the least possible in the case given; proportioned to the crime, and determined by the laws.Beccaria was an Italian economist and jurist. He wrote on the currency and other economic subjects, but his greatest work was his Treatise on Crimes and ... Read more

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  • Of Crimes and Punishments

    by Marchese Beccaria Cesare Bonesana ...
    This is a highly thought-provoking work where Beccaria-Bonesana has explained his ideas against the use of torture and capital punishments. He has produced a humanitarian spirit in the dispensation of laws. This work is important as the views expressed here, were not regarded either in his times or now. ... Read more

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  • Of Crimes and Punishments

    by Cesare Beccaria ...
    In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort, and to diffuse their influence universally and equally. But men generally abandoned the care of their most important concerns to the uncertain prudence and discretion ... Read more

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  • Against the Death Penalty

    Writings from the First Abolitionists—Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria

    by Cesare Beccaria, Giuseppie Pelli ...
    The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty—here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments. At its centre is a rejection of the death penalty as excessive, unnecessary, and pointless. Beccaria is deservedly regarded as the founding father of modern criminal-law reform, yet he was ... Read more

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  • An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

    by Cesare Beccaria ...
    On Crimes and Punishments, is a treatise written by Cesare Beccaria in 1764. It condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology. ... Read more

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  • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful

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