Research Catalog

Title

On crimes and punishments. Translated, with an introd., by Henry Paolucci.

Author

Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di, 1738-1794

Publication

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1963]

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Details

Description

99 p.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

The Library of liberal arts ; 107

Uniform Title

• Dei delitti e delle pene. English
• The Library of liberal arts ; 107.

Alternative Title

Dei delitti e delle pene.

Subject

Punishment

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The origin of punishments, and the right to punish -- Consequences -- Interpretation of the laws -- Obscurity of the laws -- Imprisonment -- Evidences and forms of judgments -- Witnesses -- Secret accusations -- Suggestive interrogations. Depositions -- Oaths -- Torture -- Prosecutions and prescriptions -- Attempts, accomplices, impunity -- Mildness of punishments -- The death penalty -- Banishment and confiscations -- Infamy -- Promptness of punishment -- The certainty of punishment. Mercy -- Asylums -- Rewards -- Proportion between crimes and punishments -- The measure of crimes -- The classification of crimes -- Crimes of lese majesty -- Crimes against personal security. Acts of violence. Punishments of nobles -- Injuries to honor -- Duels -- Thefts -- Smuggling -- Debtors -- Public tranquility -- Political indolence -- Suicide and expatriation -- Crimes of difficult proof -- A particular kind of crime -- False ideas of utility -- The spirit of the family -- The public treasury -- How to prevent crimes -- Conclusion.

LCCN

^^^61018589^/L

OCLC

271448

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library