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Introduction -- The origin of punishments, and the right to punish -- Consequences -- Interpretation of the laws -- Obscurity of the laws -- Imprisonment -- Evidences and forms of judgments -- Witnesses -- Secret accusations -- Suggestive interrogations. Depositions -- Oaths -- Torture -- Prosecutions and prescriptions -- Attempts, accomplices, impunity -- Mildness of punishments -- The death penalty -- Banishment and confiscations -- Infamy -- Promptness of punishment -- The certainty of punishment. Mercy -- Asylums -- Rewards -- Proportion between crimes and punishments -- The measure of crimes -- The classification of crimes -- Crimes of lese majesty -- Crimes against personal security. Acts of violence. Punishments of nobles -- Injuries to honor -- Duels -- Thefts -- Smuggling -- Debtors -- Public tranquility -- Political indolence -- Suicide and expatriation -- Crimes of difficult proof -- A particular kind of crime -- False ideas of utility -- The spirit of the family -- The public treasury -- How to prevent crimes -- Conclusion.
Translated, with an introd., by Henry Paolucci.
Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di, 1738-1794.