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Against the death penalty : writings from the first abolitionists--Giuseppe Pelli and Ceasare Beccaria /
"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 l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Giuseppe Bencivenni Pelli (1729-1808)
- Texts
- Giuseppe Pelli: Against the Death Penalty. Text and Fragments
- Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria: Correspondence (1766-67)
- Context
- Tuscany
- The Man
- The Life-Cycle of Against the Death Penalty
- Milieu
- Career
- Conclusion
- Argument of Against the Death Penalty
- Preliminaries
- The Proofs
- Lex talionis
- Conclusion
- Cesare Beccaria Bonesana (1738-1794)
- Texts
- Beccaria, against the Death Penalty and for Forced Labour
- Law of Grand Duke Leopold of Tuscany, against the Death Penalty (1786, excerpts)
- Opinion ('Voto') of Beccaria, Gallarati Scotti and Risi, against the Death Penalty (1792)
- Context
- Lombardy
- On Crimes and Punishments
- Career
- Milieu, Authorship, Character
- Patronage and Publication
- Argument against the Death Penalty
- Preliminaries
- Chapter 28 in Outline
- Commentary
- Postscript: From Forced Labourto Penal Servitude
- Preliminaries
- Beccaria on Forced Labour
- Beccaria and Bentham
- Beccaria and Jefferson
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- General Bibliography