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Marquis of Beccaria
16 pages (2009/1900); 149KB download
WOWIO Books; ISBN: WOWIO-00520
DESCRIPTION
The Marquis of Beccaria mid-1700s arguments about the nature of crime and use of punishment were popular and translated into the principal languages of Europe.
Favoring existing institutions, he nevertheless asked then-radical thoughts, noting:
• “It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.”
• “. . . [L]aws, which are or ought to be covenants between free men, have generally been nothing but the instrument of the passions of some few men, or the result of some accidental and temporary necessity. . .”
• “Capital punishment is injurious by the example of barbarity it presents.”