An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Author: Cesare marchese di Beccaria
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Published: 1819
Total Pages: 248
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Author: Cesare marchese di Beccaria
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Published: 1819
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cesare Beccaria
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1584776382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the fourth edition, which contains an additional text attributed to Voltaire. Originally published anonymously in 1764, Dei Delitti e Delle Pene was the first systematic study of the principles of crime and punishment. Infused with the spirit of the Enlightenment, its advocacy of crime prevention and the abolition of torture and capital punishment marked a significant advance in criminological thought, which had changed little since the Middle Ages. It had a profound influence on the development of criminal law in Europe and the United States.
Author: Frederic Block
Publisher:
Published: 2019-06
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781641053815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrimes and Punishments: Entering the Mind of a Sentencing Judge provides a cross-section of different crimes for which Judge Frederic Block sentenced a convicted criminal.
Author: James Anson Farrer
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Published: 1880
Total Pages: 306
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alexandra Natapoff
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2018-12-31
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0465093809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals. Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff reveals the inner workings of a massive petty offense system that produces over 13 million cases each year. People arrested for minor crimes are swept through courts where defendants often lack lawyers, judges process cases in mere minutes, and nearly everyone pleads guilty. This misdemeanor machine starts punishing people long before they are convicted; it punishes the innocent; and it punishes conduct that never should have been a crime. As a result, vast numbers of Americans -- most of them poor and people of color -- are stigmatized as criminals, impoverished through fines and fees, and stripped of drivers' licenses, jobs, and housing. For too long, misdemeanors have been ignored. But they are crucial to understanding our punitive criminal system and our widening economic and racial divides. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018
Author: John Hostettler
Publisher: Waterside Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 1904380638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 18th-century continental Europe, penal law and what passed for justice were barbaric: gallows were a regular feature of the landscape, branding and mutilation were common, and there existed the ghastly spectacle of people being broken on the wheel. To make matters worse, offenders were often tortured or put to death for quite minor crimes and often without any semblance of a proper trial. Like a bombshell, a book entitled On Crimes and Punishments exploded onto the scene in 1764 with shattering effect. Its author was a young man from a privileged background, named Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794). A central message of that now classic work was that such punishments belonged to 'a war of nations against their citizens' and should be abolished. It was a cri de coeur for thorough reform of the law affecting penal law and punishments, and it swept across the continent of Europe like wildfire, being adopted by one ruler after another. It even crossed the Atlantic to the new United States, into the hands of President Thomas Jefferson. Civilized penal law remains a highly topical issue, and this book examines where it all began, with the influence of Cesare Beccaria.
Author: Harford Montgomery Hyde
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780863073694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barry Jonsberg
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781741141122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter terrorizing their English teacher into leaving, Kiffo's tenth grade class finds a challenge in their new teacher.
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Published: 2021-01-18
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA few words about Dostoevsky himself may help the English reader to understand his work. Dostoevsky was the son of a doctor. His parents were very hard-working and deeply religious people, but so poor that they lived with their five children in only two rooms. The father and mother spent their evenings in reading aloud to their children, generally from books of a serious character. Though always sickly and delicate Dostoevsky came out third in the final examination of the Petersburg school of Engineering. There he had already begun his first work, “Poor Folk.” This story was published by the poet Nekrassov in his review and was received with acclamations. The shy, unknown youth found himself instantly something of a celebrity. A brilliant and successful career seemed to open before him, but those hopes were soon dashed. In 1849 he was arrested.
Author: Cesare Beccaria
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2016-10-31
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1412815584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCesare Beccaria’s influential Treatise on Crimes and Punishments is considered a foundational work in the field of criminology. Three major themes of the Enlightenment run through the Treatise: the idea that the social contract forms the moral and political basis of the work’s reformist zeal; the idea that science supports a dispassionate and reasoned appeal for reforms; and the belief that progress is inextricably bound to science. All three provide the foundation for accepting Beccaria’s proposals. It is virtually impossible to ascertain which of several versions of the Treatise that appeared during his lifetime best reflected Beccaria’s thoughts. His use of many Enlightenment ideas also makes it difficult to interpret what he has written. While Enlightenment thinkers advocated free men and free minds, there was considerable disagreement as to how this might be achieved, except in the most general terms. The editors have based this translation on the 1984 Francioni text, the most exhaustive critical Italian edition of Dei delitti e delle pene. This edition is the last that Beccaria personally oversaw and revised. This translation includes an outstanding opening essay by the editors and is a welcome introduction to Beccaria and the beginnings of criminology.