On Crime and Punishment

Author: Beccaria
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: "On Crimes and Punishments" this small book has valuable spiritual value, like a good medicine that takes only a little to relieve pain. When I read it, I truly felt quenched, and I believe that such a work must eliminate the barbaric content still lingering in the legal theories of many countries.
Voltaire, an 18th-century French Enlightenment thinker: "Review of " The founder of the Italian school of criminal law, Beccaria, wrote this work, which is not long but has a profound impact. The book was first published in 1764 and is the first systematic exposition of criminal principles in human history. The entire book is imbued with great humanitarianism, condemning torture and the death penalty with anger, advocating criminal law reform, and promoting the modern principle of proportionality between crime and punishment. After its publication, the author immediately gained great reputation, and it was translated into many languages. It had a significant impact on the criminal law reforms of countries such as Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The book is hailed as one of the most important classic works in the field of criminal law.