[CITATION] Beccaria:'On Crimes and Punishments' and Other Writings

R Bellamy - 1995 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
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Property and Punishment in the Eighteenth Century: Beccaria and his critics

DB Young - Am. J. Juris., 1986 - HeinOnline
Cesare Beccaria, author of On Crimes and Punishments (1764), has been viewed both as
an enlightened reformer and as a spokesman for partial, class-bound interests. Both
interpretations have a measure of truth. His treatise on criminal justice called not merely ...

[CITATION] Beccaria's" Essay on crimes and punishments" in eighteenth-century America

PM Spurlin - 1963

The making of the Penitentiary Act, 1775–1779

S Devereaux - The Historical Journal, 1999 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract This article examines the series of legislative measures, beginning in 1776, which
culminated in the passage of the Penitentiary Act of 1779. It argues that, although the
Penitentiary Act is of considerable long-term significance in the history of English criminal ...

[CITATION] Victims of Crime: Problems, Policies and Programs

R Davis, A Lurigio, W Skogan - 1990 - California: Sage Publications

[CITATION] Victimisation: theory, research and policy

P Francis, V Jupp, P Davies - 2003 - Palgrave Macmillan

“Let us content ourselves with praising the work while drawing a veil over its principles”: Eighteenth-century reactions to Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments

DB Young - Justice Quarterly, 1984 - Taylor & Francis
Cesare Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments, first published in 1764, has often been read
as a purely utilitarian work. Beccaria, while certainly not ignoring considerations of utility,
was far more interested in considerations of justice than many critics have believed, and ...

William Eden and leniency in punishment

AJ Draper - History of Political Thought, 2001 - ingentaconnect.com
The distinctive role played by William Eden in the penal reform debate of the late eighteenth
century is examined and his emphasis on leniency in the exercise of punishment is
identified. Eden is found to have introduced the notion of 'public virtue'into a rights theory ...

[CITATION] Bentham and Beccaria

HLA Hart - Essays on Bentham: Jurisprudence and Political …, 1982

Cesare Beccaria's influence on English discussions of punishment, 1764–1789

AJ Draper - History of European Ideas, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
The impact of Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments on English discussions of punishment
in the twenty-five years following its publication is assessed, with attention being paid to
Beccaria's combination of contractarian and early utilitarian thinking. It is argued that ...