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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.
2CONTENTS.
3CHAPTER I. BECCARIA’S LIFE AND CHARACTER.
4CHAPTER II. THE GENERAL INFLUENCE OF BECCARIA ON LEGISLATION.
5CHAPTER III. THE INFLUENCE OF BECCARIA IN ENGLAND.
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6CHAPTER IV. THE PROBLEMS OF PENOLOGY.
7DEI DELITTI E DELLE PENE.
8CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
9CHAPTER II. THE ORIGIN OF PUNISHMENTS—THE RIGHT OF PUNISHMENT.
10CHAPTER III. CONSEQUENCES.
11CHAPTER IV. INTERPRETATION OF THE LAWS.
12CHAPTER V. OBSCURITY OF THE LAWS.
13CHAPTER VI. IMPRISONMENT.
14CHAPTER VII. PROOFS AND FORMS OF JUDGMENT.
15CHAPTER VIII. WITNESSES.
16CHAPTER IX. SECRET ACCUSATIONS.
17CHAPTER X. SUGGESTIVE INTERROGATIONS—DEPOSITIONS.
18CHAPTER XI. OATHS.
19CHAPTER XII. TORTURE.
20CHAPTER XIII. PROSECUTIONS AND PRESCRIPTIONS.
21CHAPTER XIV. CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS, ACCOMPLICES, IMPUNITY.
22CHAPTER XV. THE MILDNESS OF PUNISHMENTS.
23CHAPTER XVI. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
24CHAPTER XVII. BANISHMENT AND CONFISCATIONS.
25CHAPTER XVIII. INFAMY.
26CHAPTER XIX. THE PROMPTNESS OF PUNISHMENTS.
27CHAPTER XX. CERTAINTY OF PUNISHMENTS—PARDONS.
28CHAPTER XXI. ASYLUMS OF REFUGE.
29CHAPTER XXII. OF PROSCRIPTION.
30CHAPTER XXIII. PROPORTION BETWEEN CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.
31CHAPTER XXIV. THE MEASURE OF PUNISHMENTS.
32CHAPTER XXV. THE DIVISION OF PUNISHMENTS.
33CHAPTER XXVI. CRIMES OF HIGH TREASON.
34CHAPTER XXVII. CRIMES AGAINST PERSONAL SECURITY—ACTS OF VIOLENCE—PUNISHMENTS OF NOBLES.
35CHAPTER XXVIII. OF INJURIES AND OF HONOUR.
36CHAPTER XXIX. DUELS.
37CHAPTER XXX. THEFTS.
38CHAPTER XXXI. SMUGGLING.
39CHAPTER XXXII. OF DEBTORS.
40CHAPTER XXXIII. OF THE PUBLIC TRANQUILLITY.
41CHAPTER XXXIV. OF POLITICAL IDLENESS.
42CHAPTER XXXV. SUICIDE AND ABSENCE.
43CHAPTER XXXVI. CRIMES OF DIFFICULT PROOF.
44CHAPTER XXXVII. OF A PARTICULAR KIND OF CRIME.
45CHAPTER XXXVIII. FALSE IDEAS OF UTILITY.
46CHAPTER XXXIX. OF FAMILY SPIRIT.
47CHAPTER XL. OF THE TREASURY.
48CHAPTER XLI. THE PREVENTION OF CRIMES—OF KNOWLEDGE—MAGISTRATES—REWARDS—EDUCATION.
49CHAPTER XLII. CONCLUSION.
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