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  1. political economy. criminal law. punishment. reform. Cesare Beccaria (born March 15, 1738, Milan [Italy]—died November 28, 1794, Milan) was an Italian criminologist and economist whose Dei delitti e delle pene (1764; Eng. trans. J.A. Farrer, Crimes and Punishment, 1880) was a celebrated volume on the reform of criminal justice.

  2. Cesare Beccaria. Cesare Beccaria ranked amongst the most remarkable intellectual minds of the Enlightenment era of the 18 th century. His literary contributions have led to ground-breaking evolution in the fields of economics and criminology. Cesare was born on March 15, 1738, in Milan, Italy. He hailed from an aristocratic family of the ...

  3. Cesare Beccaria. Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio [1] ( Italian: [ˈtʃeːzare bekkaˈriːa, ˈtʃɛː-]; 15 March 1738 – 28 November 1794) was an Italian criminologist, [2] jurist, philosopher, economist and politician, who is widely considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment.

  4. Cesare Beccaria or Caesar, Marchese Di Beccaria Bonesana (March 11, 1738 – November 28, 1794) was an Italian criminologist and economist. His work was significant in the development of Utilitarianism. Beccaria advocated swift punishment as the best form of deterrent to crime. His best known work was his treatise On Crimes and Punishments ...

  5. Beccaria’s work was entirely censorial; he was the first legal philosopher to maintain a very firm distinction between evaluation and description of the law. Philosophy was the critical tool that Beccaria used to revolutionise the way in which European societies thought about the law.

  6. Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794) was an Italian jurist and philosopher. In little over a hundred pages, in 1764, he formulated the basis of modern criminal law. The explicit aim of his On crimes and punishments was that of studying and combatting “the cruelty of punishments and the irregularities of criminal procedures” (Beccaria 2008: 10).

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