beccaria, cesare

The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty—here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria crea

"Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment" Originally published in 1764, Beccaria's treatise argued r

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

"Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment" Originally published in 1764, Beccaria's treatise argued rat

In this edition of Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments and other writings, Richard Bellamy shows how Beccaria wove together the various political lan