Submitted by: Mark Alpert, Adjunct Professor, Dept. of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
To read online: Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, An Essay on Crimes and Punishments [1764]
“On Crimes and Punishments (Italian: Dei delitti e delle pene [dei deˈlitti e ddelle ˈpeːne]), is a treatise written by Cesare Beccaria, an Italian criminologist, in 1764. The treatise condemned torture and the death penalty and was a founding work in the field of penology.”
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