An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

An Essay on Crimes and Punishments  (1764)  by Cesare Beccaria, translator not mentioned

Preface of the Translator→

information about this edition.  Anonymous 1767 English translation of Dei delitti e delle pene (1764). Foundational text of modern criminology. Famous for the Marquis Beccaria's arguments against torture and capital punishment. — Excerpted from Dei delitti e delle pene on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

• Preface of the Translator

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

	INTRODUCTION     .     .     .     .     .     .     .     .     .	.	Page    1
Chap.    I.	Of the Origin of Punishments     .     .     .     .     .	.	5
II.	Of the Right to punish	. . .	7
III.	Consequences of the foregoing Principles	. . .	10
IV.	Of the Interpretation of laws	. . .	12
V.	Of the Obscurity of laws	. . .	18
VI.	Of the Proportion between Crimes and Punishments	. . .	21
VII.	Of estimating the Degree of Crimes	. . .	26
VIII.	Of the Division of Crimes	. . .	29
IX.	Of Honour	. . .	33
X.	Of Duelling	. . .	38
XI.	Of Crimes which disturb the public Tranquillity	. . .	40
XII.	Of the Intent of Punishments	. . .	43
XIII.	Of the Credibility of Witnesses	. . .	44
XIV.	Of Evidence, and the Proofs of a Crime, and of the Form of Judgment	. . .	49
XV.	Of secret Accusations	. . .	53
XVI.	Of Torture	. . .	57
XVII.	Of pecuniary Punishments	. . .	69
XVIII.	Of Oaths	. . .	72
XIX.	Of the Advantage of immediate Punishment	. . .	74
XX.	Of Acts of Violence	. . .	79
XXI.	Of the Punishment of the Nobles	. . .	80
XXII.	Of Robbery	. . .	83
XXIII.	Of Infamy, considered as a Punishment	. . .	85
XXIV.	Of Idleness	. . .	87
XXV.	Of Banishment and Confiscation	. . .	89
XXVI.	Of the Spirit of Family in States	. . .	92
XXVII.	Of the Mildness of Punishments	. . .	98
XXVIII.	Of the Punishment of Death	. . .	102
XXIX.	Of Imprisonment	. . .	117
XXX.	Of Prosecution and Prescription	. . .	120
XXXI.	Of Crimes of difficult Proof	. . .	125
XXXII.	Of Suicide	. . .	132
XXXIII.	Of Smuggling	. . .	139
XXXIV.	Of Bankrupts	. . .	142
XXXV.	Of Sanctuaries	. . .	147
XXXVI.	Of Rewards for apprehending, or killing Criminals	. . .	150
XXXVII.	Of Attempts, Accomplices, and Pardon	. . .	152
XXXVIII.	Of suggestive Interrogations	. . .	156
XXXIX.	Of a particular Kind of Crimes	. . .	158
XL.	Of false Ideas of Utility	. . .	160
XLI.	Of the Means of preventing Crimes	. . .	164
XLII.	Of the Sciences	. . .	167
XLIII.	Of Magistrates	. . .	172
XLIV.	Of Rewards	. . .	173
XLV.	Of Education	. . .	174
XLVI.	Of Pardons	. . .	175
XLVII.	Conclusion	. . .	178

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