by Cesare Beccaria · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781539417934
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«Des délits et des Peines» is the essay by Cesare Beccaria, published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform in paperback (142 pages, in French).
Foundational work of criminal law. Beccaria criticizes punishment, defends the proportionality of the penalty and denounces the cruelty of the justice of his time: ordeals and the death penalty. He advocates separating criminal law from the Church. It influenced Voltaire and Diderot and anticipated the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789.
The original title in Italian is «Dei delitti e delle pene». Classic work of law and philosophy, originally published in the 18th century; this French edition is from 2016.
Aimed at students of law and philosophy, and at readers interested in the Enlightenment, the history of ideas and the reform of the penal system.
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.
