On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria, Henry Paolucci

On Crimes and Punishments

Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought

Cesare Beccaria, Henry Paolucci

128 pages • first pub 1763 (view editions)

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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 m...

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