He is well remembered for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments (1764), which condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology and the classical school of criminology. Beccaria is considered the father of modern criminal law and the father of criminal justice. [3] [4] [5]

Modern penology dates from the publication of Cesare Beccaria’s pamphlet on Crimes and Punishments in 1764. This represented a school of doctrine, born of the new humanitarian impulse of the 18th century, with which Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, and Montesquieu in France and Jeremy Bentham in England were associated. This, which came ...

2025年2月19日 · Beccaria was the first modern writer to advocate the complete abolition of capital punishment and may therefore be regarded as a founder of the abolition movements that have persisted in most civilized nations since his day.

2023年8月9日 · Cesare Beccaria was a criminologist and economist. In the early 1760s, Beccaria helped form a society called "the academy of fists," dedicated to economic, political and administrative reform....

In 1764, Beccaria published his most famous work, "On Crimes and Punishments" (Dei delitti e delle pene), which became a cornerstone of modern criminal law and penology.

Wikipedia describes Beccaria as the father of penology and his treatise, On Crimes and Punishments (1764) the founding work in penology.

2023年4月5日 · He published the first full work on reform of the criminal justice system, including penology. Beccaria attended a Jesuit College in the city of Parma, reportedly bored and rebellious against what he saw as dogma, but then went to the University of Pavia, where he took his degree in …