Against the Death Penalty: Writings from the First AbolitionistsGiuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria
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Against the Death Penalty: Writings from the First AbolitionistsGiuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria
By (Author) Cesare Beccaria
By (author) Giuseppie Pelli
Edited by Peter Garnsey
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
18th January 2021
3rd December 2020
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Political science and theory
Ethical issues: capital punishment
Law and society, sociology of law
Methods, theory and philosophy of law
364.66
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Hardback
232
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
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The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty-here for the first time in English In 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments. At its centre is a rejection of the death penalty as excessive, unnecessary, and pointless. Beccaria is deservedly regarded as the foun
Author Bio
Peter Garnsey is emeritus professor of the history of classical antiquity at the University of Cambridge and emeritus fellow of Jesus College. His recent books include Thinking about Property: From Antiquity to the Age of Revolution and, with Richard Saller, The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture.
