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Author / Creator:Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di, 1738-1794.
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
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Other authors / contributors:Newman, Graeme R.
Marongiu, Pietro, 1946-
ISBN:9781412810159 (alk. paper)
1412810159 (alk. paper)
Notes:Translated from the Italian.
Includes bibliographical references.
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