Against the death penalty : writings from the first abolitionists--Giuseppe Pelli and Ceasare Beccaria / texts translated and with historical commentary by Peter Garnsey.

"The Italian political and legal thinker Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) is justly regarded as the founding father of the movement for criminal law reform that emerged in Europe in the mid-18th century. His treatise, On Crimes and Punishments (1764), is a seminal text that has had an enormous and lastin...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pelli Bencivenni, Giuseppe, 1729-1808
Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di, 1738-1794
Garnsey, Peter (Translator, Writer of added commentary)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Italian
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Capital punishment > Early works to 1800.
Punishment > Early works to 1800.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Capital punishment.
Punishment.
Early works.
Genre:
Early works to 1800.
Early works.
Physical Description:ix, 215 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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