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Tratado De Los Delitos Y De Las Penas (Spanish Edition)

Beccaria, Cesare

History

Wentworth Press

An Essay On Crimes and Punishments

Franklin Classics

An Essay On Crimes and Punishments: By the Marquis Beccaria of Milan. With a Commentary by M. De Voltaire

An Essay on Crimes and Punishments: By the Marquis Beccaria of Milan. with a Commentary by M. de Voltaire

Beccaria: 'On Crimes and Punishments' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

In this edition of Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments and other writings, Richard Bellamy draws on recent Italian scholarship to show how Beccaria wove together the various political languages of the Enlightenment into a political philosophy that combines republican, contractarian, romantic and liberal as well as utilitarian themes. This edition also includes a number of pieces from Beccaria's writings on political economy and the history of civilization that were not previously available in English.

Beccaria: 'on Crimes and Punishments' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Cambridge University Press

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty--here for the first time in English In 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 not the first to argue for the abolition of the death penalty. Against the Death Penalty presents the first English translation of the Florentine aristocrat Giuseppe Pelli's critique of capital punishment, written three years before Beccaria's treatise, but lost for more than two centuries in the Pelli family archives. Peter Garnsey examines the contrasting arguments of the two abolitionists, who drew from different intellectual traditions. Pelli was a devout Catholic influenced by the writings of natural jurists such as Hugo Grotius, whereas Beccaria was inspired by the French Enlightenment philosophers. While Beccaria attacked the criminal justice system as a whole, Pelli focused on the death penalty, composing a critique of considerable depth and sophistication. Garnsey explores how Beccaria's alternative penalty of forced labour, and its conceptualisation as servitude, were embraced in Britain and America, and delves into Pelli's voluminous diaries, shedding light on Pelli's intellectual development and painting a vivid portrait of an Enlightenment man of letters and of conscience. With translations of letters exchanged by the two abolitionists and selections from Beccaria's writings, Against the Death Penalty provides new insights into eighteenth-century debates about capital punishment and offers vital historical perspectives on one of the most pressing questions of our own time.

Against the Death Penalty: Writings from the First Abolitionists―Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria

Pelli, Giuseppie

Philosophy

Princeton University Press

On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria was a best seller throughout the American colonies. It was known by all of our Founding Fathers, and used in the deliberations of the Continental Congress as well as in the deliberations of the Constitution Convention. John Adams quoted from the book in 1768, and in 1770 in the case of the Boston Massacre. Thomas Jefferson, on the other hand, used Beccaria’s book almost entirely for the Bill On Proportioning Crimes and Punishments. It was used with the abolition movement, in practically all cases relating to capital punishment, and most recently in two separate US Supreme Court decisions. Beccaria’s great admirer, Sean L. Green, says it best: “On Crimes and Punishments is one of the greatest treatises in the democratic tradition, a testament to human freedom and social justice. For students of law or political theory (of which I am one) this is an excellent account of some of the fundamental principles of democratic society and jurisprudence. Anyone who holds public office should be forced to read this book at gunpoint.”

On Crimes and Punishments

Caso, Adolph

Branden Books

World Literature

Legare Street Press

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