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Excerpt: "'All men, whether singly or collectively, naturally do wrong, nor is there any law which will prevent it. For every kind of punishment has been successively tried by mankind, if haply they might suffer less injury from malefactors. And it is probable that in their origin punishments for even the gravest crimes are comparatively mild, but that, as they are disregarded, most of them come in course of time to be punishments of death; yet this in its turn is also disregarded. Either, therefore, some greater terror than death must be invented, or death at least serves not as a deterrent, men being led to risk it, sometimes by poverty, which emboldens them through necessity, sometimes by power, which makes them overreaching and insolent; or sometimes by some other circumstance which subordinates all a man's passions to some one passion that is insuperable and dominant.… And it is simply impossible, and a very foolish idea, to think that, when human nature is firmly bent on doing anything, it can be deterred from it either by force of law or by any other terror.'—Thucydides. 'How many condemnations have I seen more criminal than the crimes themselves!'—Montaigne."
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Table of contents
1PREFACE.
26CHAPTER XIX. THE PROMPTNESS OF PUNISHMENTS.
2CONTENTS.
27CHAPTER XX. CERTAINTY OF PUNISHMENTS—PARDONS.
3CHAPTER I. BECCARIA’S LIFE AND CHARACTER.
28CHAPTER XXI. ASYLUMS OF REFUGE.
4CHAPTER II. THE GENERAL INFLUENCE OF BECCARIA ON LEGISLATION.
29CHAPTER XXII. OF PROSCRIPTION.
5CHAPTER III. THE INFLUENCE OF BECCARIA IN ENGLAND.
30CHAPTER XXIII. PROPORTION BETWEEN CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.
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6CHAPTER IV. THE PROBLEMS OF PENOLOGY.
31CHAPTER XXIV. THE MEASURE OF PUNISHMENTS.
7DEI DELITTI E DELLE PENE.
32CHAPTER XXV. THE DIVISION OF PUNISHMENTS.
8CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
33CHAPTER XXVI. CRIMES OF HIGH TREASON.
9CHAPTER II. THE ORIGIN OF PUNISHMENTS—THE RIGHT OF PUNISHMENT.
34CHAPTER XXVII. CRIMES AGAINST PERSONAL SECURITY—ACTS OF VIOLENCE—PUNISHMENTS OF NOBLES.
10CHAPTER III. CONSEQUENCES.
35CHAPTER XXVIII. OF INJURIES AND OF HONOUR.
11CHAPTER IV. INTERPRETATION OF THE LAWS.
36CHAPTER XXIX. DUELS.
12CHAPTER V. OBSCURITY OF THE LAWS.
37CHAPTER XXX. THEFTS.
13CHAPTER VI. IMPRISONMENT.
38CHAPTER XXXI. SMUGGLING.
14CHAPTER VII. PROOFS AND FORMS OF JUDGMENT.
39CHAPTER XXXII. OF DEBTORS.
15CHAPTER VIII. WITNESSES.
40CHAPTER XXXIII. OF THE PUBLIC TRANQUILLITY.
16CHAPTER IX. SECRET ACCUSATIONS.
41CHAPTER XXXIV. OF POLITICAL IDLENESS.
17CHAPTER X. SUGGESTIVE INTERROGATIONS—DEPOSITIONS.
42CHAPTER XXXV. SUICIDE AND ABSENCE.
18CHAPTER XI. OATHS.
43CHAPTER XXXVI. CRIMES OF DIFFICULT PROOF.
19CHAPTER XII. TORTURE.
44CHAPTER XXXVII. OF A PARTICULAR KIND OF CRIME.
20CHAPTER XIII. PROSECUTIONS AND PRESCRIPTIONS.
45CHAPTER XXXVIII. FALSE IDEAS OF UTILITY.
21CHAPTER XIV. CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS, ACCOMPLICES, IMPUNITY.
46CHAPTER XXXIX. OF FAMILY SPIRIT.
22CHAPTER XV. THE MILDNESS OF PUNISHMENTS.
47CHAPTER XL. OF THE TREASURY.
23CHAPTER XVI. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
48CHAPTER XLI. THE PREVENTION OF CRIMES—OF KNOWLEDGE—MAGISTRATES—REWARDS—EDUCATION.
24CHAPTER XVII. BANISHMENT AND CONFISCATIONS.
49CHAPTER XLII. CONCLUSION.
25CHAPTER XVIII. INFAMY.
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