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Cesare Beccaria’s slim 1764 volume On Crimes and Punishments
influenced policy developments worldwide and over decades, if not
centuries, after its publication. For those who turn to
Beccaria’s work today, the encounter is shaped by that knowledge.
Appreciative of On Crimes and Punishments' dual nature as
historical document and repository of ideas, the contributions in
this collection address different aspects of the criminal justice
theory Beccaria offered his readers and face up to methodological
questions raised by meeting a historical text of this kind –
unsystematic and by modern standards often under-argued – with
modern scholarly conventions in mind. Contributions in the first
part of the book engage with Beccaria’s political theory of
criminal justice through the lenses of political and penal
philosophy, considering how Beccaria’s blending of
social-contractarian foundations and proto-utilitarian policy
analysis interlinks with the concrete set of criminal justice
practices Beccaria presents as justified. This leads on to the
second part where contributors approach Beccaria’s ideas with
present-day reforms and developments in mind. Many of his policy
proposals and arguments remain significant from our contemporary
perspective, their limitations and omissions proving as instructive
for the contemporary scholar as their more prescient elements. The
third part offers those looking at Beccaria’s work today a
glimpse into the practical difficulties facing the firebrand author
turned public servant during his long career in the
Habsburg-Lombardian administration. It puts his work into the
broader context of pathways to criminal justice reform in northern
Italy, Habsburgian Lombardy, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in
Beccaria’s day.
Cesare Beccaria's slim 1764 volume On Crimes and Punishments
influenced policy developments worldwide and over decades, if not
centuries, after its publication. For those who turn to Beccaria's
work today, the encounter is shaped by that knowledge. Appreciative
of On Crimes and Punishments' dual nature as historical document
and repository of ideas, the contributions in this collection
address different aspects of the criminal justice theory Beccaria
offered his readers and face up to methodological questions raised
by meeting a historical text of this kind - unsystematic and by
modern standards often under-argued - with modern scholarly
conventions in mind. Contributions in the first part of the book
engage with Beccaria's political theory of criminal justice through
the lenses of political and penal philosophy, considering how
Beccaria's blending of social-contractarian foundations and
proto-utilitarian policy analysis interlinks with the concrete set
of criminal justice practices Beccaria presents as justified. This
leads on to the second part where contributors approach Beccaria's
ideas with present-day reforms and developments in mind. Many of
his policy proposals and arguments remain significant from our
contemporary perspective, their limitations and omissions proving
as instructive for the contemporary scholar as their more prescient
elements. The third part offers those looking at Beccaria's work
today a glimpse into the practical difficulties facing the
firebrand author turned public servant during his long career in
the Habsburg-Lombardian administration. It puts his work into the
broader context of pathways to criminal justice reform in northern
Italy, Habsburgian Lombardy, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in
Beccaria's day.
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