Cesare Beccaria
Cesare Beccaria the Criminologist and Economist
Cesare Beccaria, a criminologist and economist, born on March 15, 1738 in Milan, helped form a society called “the academy of fists” that was dedicated to economic, political and administrative restructuring. Beccaria was inspired by Addison and Steele’s literary magazine, “The Spectator” to write his first full work, “On Crimes and Punishments” and nowadays people have started to use his ideas, which are truth in sentencing, quick punishments and abolishment of death penalty. He was inspired by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele and because of their literary magazine, he published his treatise, “On Crimes and Punishments”, which was the first effective statement of philosophies governing criminal punishment, in which he argued that the efficiency of criminal justice depended more on the conviction of punishment than its cruelty, at 1764, which condemned torture and death penalty that also marked the high point of the Milan Enlightenment.
His treatise was also the first full work of penology (study of punishment in crime) and his work greatly influenced Jeremy Bentham in his development of his doctrine of Utilitarianism. The principles Beccaria appealed to were Reason, an understanding of the state as a form of deal. He condemned death penalty on two grounds, firstly, because the state doesn’t have the rights to take lives and secondly, because the punishments they do is not a useful or necessary form of punishment. Beccaria developed a number of innovational and influential principles in his treatise; punishment should be proportional to the crimes committed, also in order to be effective, punishments should be timely. He also argued against the gun control laws and he was one of the first people to advocate influence in lessening crime. Beccaria traveled to Paris together with the Verri brothers and was given a very warm welcome by the philosophes. But the break with the Verri brothers showed lasting; they
Cesare Beccaria, a criminologist and economist, born on March 15, 1738 in Milan, helped form a society called “the academy of fists” that was dedicated to economic, political and administrative restructuring. Beccaria was inspired by Addison and Steele’s literary magazine, “The Spectator” to write his first full work, “On Crimes and Punishments” and nowadays people have started to use his ideas, which are truth in sentencing, quick punishments and abolishment of death penalty. He was inspired by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele and because of their literary magazine, he published his treatise, “On Crimes and Punishments”, which was the first effective statement of philosophies governing criminal punishment, in which he argued that the efficiency of criminal justice depended more on the conviction of punishment than its cruelty, at 1764, which condemned torture and death penalty that also marked the high point of the Milan Enlightenment.
His treatise was also the first full work of penology (study of punishment in crime) and his work greatly influenced Jeremy Bentham in his development of his doctrine of Utilitarianism. The principles Beccaria appealed to were Reason, an understanding of the state as a form of deal. He condemned death penalty on two grounds, firstly, because the state doesn’t have the rights to take lives and secondly, because the punishments they do is not a useful or necessary form of punishment. Beccaria developed a number of innovational and influential principles in his treatise; punishment should be proportional to the crimes committed, also in order to be effective, punishments should be timely. He also argued against the gun control laws and he was one of the first people to advocate influence in lessening crime. Beccaria traveled to Paris together with the Verri brothers and was given a very warm welcome by the philosophes. But the break with the Verri brothers showed lasting; they