Essay on Crimes and Punishments

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Authors: Voltaire, Cesare Beccaria In Year : 1819

Book Language: English

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Introduction
Preface by the Translator of M.D. Voltaire's Commentary
Chapter I - On the Origin of Punishments
Chapter II - On the Right to Punish
Chapter III - Consequences of the foregoing principles
Chapter IV - Of the Interpretation of Laws
Chapter V - Of the Obscurity of Laws
Chapter VI - Of the Proportion between Crimes and Punishments
Chapter VII - Of Estimating the Degree of Crimes
Chapter VIII - Of the Division of Crimes
Chapter IX - Of Honour
Chapter X - Of Duelling
Chapter XI - Of Crimes which Disturb Public Tranquillity
Chapter XII - Of the Intent of Punishments
Chapter XIII - Of the Credibility of Witnesses
Chapter XIV - Of Evidence and the Proofs of a Crime, and of the Form of Judgment
Chapter XV - Of Secret Accusation
Chapter XVI - Of Torture
Chapter XVII - Of Pecuniary Punishments
Chapter XVIII - Of Oaths
Chapter XIX - Of the Advantage of Immediate Punishment
Chapter XX - Of Acts of Violence
Chapter XXI - Of the Punishment of the Nobles
Chapter XXII - Of Robbery
Chapter XXIII - Of Infamy considered as a Punishment
Chapter XXIV - Of Idleness
Chapter XXV - Of Banishment and Confiscation
Chapter XXVI - Of the Spirit of Family in States
Chapter XXVII - Of the Mildness of Punishments
Chapter XXVIII - Of the Punishment of Death
Chapter XXIX - Of Imprisonment
Chapter XXX - Of Prosecution and Prescription
Chapter XXXI - Of Crimes of Difficult Proof
Chapter XXXII - Of Suicide
Chapter XXXIII - Of Smuggling
Chapter XXXIV - Of Bankrupts
Chapter XXXV - Of Sanctuaries
Chapter XXXVI - Of Rewards for Apprehending or Killing Criminals
Chapter XXXVII - Of Attempts, Acomplices and Pardon
Chapter XXXVIII - Of Suggestive Interrogations
Chapter XXXIX - Of a Peculiar Kind of Crimes
Chapter XL - Of False Ideas of Utility
Chapter XLI - Of the Means of Preventing Crimes
Chapter XLII - Of the Sciences
Chapter XLIII - Of Magistrates
Chapter XLIV - Of Rewards
Chapter XLV - Of Education
Chapter XLVI - Of Pardons
Chapter XLVII - Conclusion
Commentary - Chapter I - The Circumstances that Occasioned this Commentary
Commentary - Chapter II - Of Punishments
Commentary - Chapter III - Of the Punishment of Heretics
Commentary - Chapter IV - Of the Extirpation of Heresies
Commentary - Chapter V - Of Blasphemy and Profanation
Commentary - Chapter VI - Of the Indulgence of the Romans in Matters of Religion
Commentary - Chapter VII - Of the Crime of Unlawful Preaching - Story of Anthony
Commentary - Chapter VIII - The Story of Simon Morin
Commentary - Chapter IX - Of Witches
Commentary - Chapter X - Of Capital Punishment
Commentary - Chapter XI - Of the Execution of Sentences
Commentary - Chapter XII - Of Torture
Commentary - Chapter XIII - Of Certain Sanguinary Tribunals
Commentary - Chapter XIV - Of the Difference Between Political and Natural Laws
Commentary - Chapter XV - Of the Crime of High Treason - Of Titus Oates and of the Death of Augustine de Thou
Commentary - Chapter XVI - Of the Revealing of Crimes (Before Commission) by Religious Confession
Commentary - Chapter XVII - Of Counterfeiting Money
Commentary - Chapter XVIII - Of Domestic Theft
Commentary - Chapter XIX - Of Suicide
Commentary - Chapter XX - Of a Certain Species of Mutilation
Commentary - Chapter XXI - Of the Confiscation Consequent upon all the Crimes which Have Been Mentioned
Commentary - Chapter XXII - Of Criminal Proceedings, and of Some Other Forms of Procedure
Commentary - Chapter XXIII - The Idea of a Reform Suggested

Beccaria's treatise On Crimes and Punishments, which condemns disproportionate and irrational penalties in general as well as torture and the death penalty, is said to mark the peak of Enlightenment in Milan. Its translations were widely read by statesmen and policy makers in Britain, America and France. This translation also features the anonymous commentary, attributed to Voltaire. - Summary by Carolin