On Crime and Punishment (Famous Works of Foreign Jurisprudence)

Author: (Italian) Beccaria
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Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Features: "On Crimes and Punishments" is a small book with invaluable spiritual value, like a good medicine that relieves pain with just a small dose. When I read it, I truly felt quenched. I believe that such a work must be able to eliminate the barbarous content still lingering in the legal theories of many countries. Voltaire, an 18th-century French Enlightenment thinker: "Review of a Book." The founding work of the Italian criminalistics school, Beccaria's book, though not lengthy, has had an extremely profound impact. First published in 1764, it is the first book in human history to systematically expound the principles of criminal justice. The entire book is imbued with a great sense of humanism, denouncing torture and the death penalty with anger, advocating criminal law reform, and vigorously promoting the modern principle of proportionate sentencing between crime and punishment. After its publication, the author instantly gained immense reputation, and it was translated into multiple 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.