An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Beccaria, Cesare / [Francois-Marie Arouet, Voltaire![An Essay on Crimes and Punishments](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/219/21986979/CHSBZCOP0321986979.jpg)
The first systematic study of the principles of crime and punishment. Originally published: London: Printed for E. Newberry, 1775. viii, [iv], 179, lxxix pp. Infused with the spirit of the Enlightenment, its advocacy of crime prevention and the abolition of torture and capital punishment marked a significant advance in criminological thought, which had changed little since the Middle Ages. It had a profound influence on the development of crim...