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Cesare Beccaria
AuthorBooks · Second hand1738-1794
Cesare Beccaria Bonesana, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio was an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist, and politician. He is well remembered for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments (1764), which condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology and the classical school of criminology. Beccaria is considered the father of modern criminal law and the father of criminal justice.
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About Cesare Beccaria
Birth
1738
Death
1794
First book
1764
Years writing
262
Cesare Beccaria Bonesana, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio was an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist, and politician. He is well remembered for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments (1764), which condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology and the classical school of criminology. Beccaria is considered the father of modern criminal law and the father of criminal justice.
Cesare Beccaria is widely considered one of the most brilliant thinkers of the Enlightenment.
His seminal work, On Crimes and Punishments, revolutionized the modern penal system.
Born in Milan in 1738, he excelled as a philosopher, jurist, and economist.
His ideas were pioneering in the movement against the death penalty and torture.
Throughout his life, he authored nearly a hundred works on law and justice.
