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1 online resource (xviii, 160 pages) : color illustrations, portrait |
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Watershed -- Visionary -- Cri de Coeur -- Critique of Inquisition Procedure -- A Final Note -- About the author -- Beccaria's Life And Times -- A Modest Man -- Crime and Punishment -- House Arrest -- Academy of Fists -- Thomas Jefferson -- A Changing World -- Retribution -- Break with Friends -- Death of Teresa -- Consideration of "On Crimes and Punishments" -- Secret Accusations and Torture -- The Effects of Secrecy -- "Torture a Mercy" -- Trial by Ordeal -- Consecrated Cruelty |
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Bentham on Torture -- Voltaire -- The Death Penalty -- Ancient Origin -- War Against Citizens -- Deprivation of Liberty -- Judicial Murder -- Acceptance in Continental Europe -- Impact in England -- The Rev. Martin Madan -- Archdeacon Paley -- Criminal Law Commissioners -- Criminal Law and Punishments -- Reform of Criminal Justice -- Penal Law -- The Origins of Punishments and the Right to Punish -- Interpretation of the Law -- Consequences -- Spirit of the Law -- Obscurity of the Law -- The Division of Punishments -- Crimes of High Treason |
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VoltairePersonal Security -- The Purpose of Punishment -- Prompt Punishment -- Public Tranquility -- Pleas of the Crown and Confessions -- Crimes Difficult to Prove and Others -- Presumptions -- Adultery -- Homosexuality -- Infanticide -- Suicide -- Voltaire on Suicide -- Smuggling -- Bankruptcy -- Leading Questions -- Oaths -- Sanctuaries -- Extradition -- Various Topics and Imprisonment -- Prosecutions and Prescriptions -- Criminal Attempts -- Accomplices -- Evidence and Proofs of a Crime -- Witnesses -- William Garrow |
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ImprisonmentJohn Howard -- Voltaire -- Other Punishments -- Crimes of Violence -- Punishment of Nobles -- Theft and Robbery -- Ill-repute -- Rewards for Detaining or Killing Criminals -- Criminal Procedure -- Voltaire -- Mildness of Punishments -- The Means of Preventing Crimes -- Science -- Magistrates -- Certainty of Punishments�Pardons -- False Ideas of Utility -- Family Spirit -- Voltaire�s Commentary -- Beccaria�s Influence -- Profound Impact -- The French Revolution and Adversary Trial |
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Human Rights and Voltaire�s Causes CelebresJohn Adams -- Conclusion -- Success -- Revolution -- England -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover |
| Summary |
"In eighteenth century continental Europe penal law was barbaric. Gallows were a regular feature of the landscape, branding and mutilation common and there existed the ghastly spectacle of men being broken on the wheel. To make matters worse, people were often tortured or put to death (sometimes both) for minor crimes and often without any trial at all. Like a bombshell a book entitled On Crimes and Punishments exploded onto the scene in 1764 with shattering effect. Its author was a young nobleman named Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794). A central message of that--now classic--work was that such punishments belonged to 'a war of nations against their citizens' and should be abolished. It was a cri de coeur for thorough reform of the law affecting punishments and it swept across the continent of Europe like wildfire, being adopted by one ruler after another. It even crossed the Atlantic to the new United States of America into the hands of President Thomas Jefferson."--Publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di, 1738-1794. Dei delitti e delle pene.
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| SUBJECT |
Dei delitti e delle pene (Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di) fast (OCoLC)fst01356573 |
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Criminal law -- Philosophy
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Europe -- Early works to 1800
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Criminals -- Europe -- Early works to 1800
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Punishment -- Europe -- Early works to 1800
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Capital punishment -- Europe -- Early works to 1800
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Capital punishment.
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Criminal justice, Administration of.
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Criminal law -- Philosophy.
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Criminals.
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Punishment.
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Europe.
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| Genre/Form |
Early works.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010671246 |
| ISBN |
1906534934 |
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9781906534936 |
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