On crimes and punishments /
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Author / Creator: | Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di, 1738-1794. |
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Uniform title: | Dei delitti e delle pene. English |
Edition: | 5th ed. |
Imprint: | New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, c2009. |
Description: | lxviii, 154 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7843127 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the Treatise
- A Note on the Text
- Biographical Note
- Title Page
- To the Reader
- Introduction
- § I. The Origin of Punishments
- § II. The Right to Punish
- § III. Implications So Far
- § IV. The Interpretation of Laws
- § V. The Obscurity of the Laws
- § VI. The Proportion between Crime and Punishment
- § VII. Errors in the Measurement of Crime
- § VIII. The Classification of Crimes
- § IX. Honor
- § X. Duels
- § XI. Disturbing the Peace
- § XII. The Purpose of Punishment
- § XIII. On Witnesses
- § XIV. Evidence and Forms of Judgment
- § XV. Secret Accusations
- § XVI. Torture
- § XVII. Revenue Authorities
- § XVIII. Oaths
- § XIX. Prompt Punishment
- § XX. Violent Crimes
- § XXI. Punishing Nobles
- § XXII. Theft
- § XXIII. Public Condemnation
- § XXIV. Political Indolence
- § XXV. Banishment and Confiscation
- § XXVI. On the Spirit of the Family
- § XXVII. The Mildness of Punishments
- § XXVIII. The Punishment of Death
- § XXIX. Preventive Detention
- § XXX. Criminal Proceedings and the Statute of Limitations
- § XXXI. Crimes Difficult to Prove
- § XXXII. Suicide
- § XXXIII. Smuggling
- § XXXIV. Debtors
- § XXXV. Sanctuaries
- § XXXVI. Bounties
- § XXXVII. Attempts, Accomplices, Pardons
- § XXXVIII. Suggestive Interrogations, Depositions
- § XXXIX. On a Particular Kind of Crime
- § XL. False Ideas of Utility
- § XLI. How to Prevent Crimes
- § XLII. On the Sciences
- § XLIII. Judges
- § XLIV. Rewards
- § XLV. Education
- § XLVI. On Pardons
- § XLVII. Conclusion
- Endnotes
- References