Baccaria 'On Crimes and Punishments' and Other Writings

Name: Baccaria 'On Crimes and Punishments' and Other Writings
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ISBN: 9780521479820

ISBN-10: 0521479827

ISBN-13: 9780521479820

Edition: 1995

Authors: Cesare Beccaria, Richard Bellamy, Richard Davies

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This edition of Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments and other writings presents a radically new interpretation of his thought. Drawing on recent Italian scholarship, Richard Bellamy shows how Beccaria wove together the various political languages of the Enlightenment into a novel synthesis, and argues that his political philosophy, often regarded as no more than a precursor of Bentham's, combines republican, contractarian, romantic and liberal as well as utilitarian themes. The result is a complex theory of punishment that derives from a sophisticated analysis of the role of the state and the nature of human motivation in commercial society. The translation used in this edition is based on…

Book details

List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/13/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.39" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction


Chronology


Biographical glossary


Note on the texts


Bibliographical note


On Crimes and Punishments


Frontispiece


To the reader


Introduction



The origin of punishment



The right to punish



Consequences



The interpretation of the laws



The obscurity of the laws



The proportion between crimes and punishments



Errors in the measuring of punishments



The classification of crimes



Of honour



Of duels



Public peace



The purpose of punishment



Of witnesses



Evidence and forms of judgement



Secret denunciations



Of torture



Of the exchequer



Of oaths



Of prompt punishments



Violent crimes



The punishment of the nobility



Theft



Public disgrace



Parasites



Banishment and confiscations



Family feeling



Lenience in punishing



The death penalty



Of detention awaiting trial



Trials and prescriptions



Crimes difficult to prove



Suicide



Smuggling



Of debtors



Asylums



On setting a price on men's heads



Attempted crimes, accomplices and immunity



Leading interrogations, depositions



Of a particular kind of crime



False ideas of utility



How to prevent crimes



The sciences



Magistrates



Public awards



Education



Pardons



Conclusion


To Jean Baptiste d+Alembert


To AndrT Morellet


Inaugural Lecture


Reflections on the Barbarousness and the Civilisation of Nations and on the Savage State of Man


Reflections on Manners and Customs


On Luxury


Index