Crimes and Punishments

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Author

Farrer, James Anson, 1849-1925

Title

Crimes and Punishments Including a New Translation of Beccaria's 'Dei Delitti e delle Pene'

Credits

Produced by Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare

Subject

Law reform

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 58700

Release Date

January 15, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS. — CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.
4. 4.CHAPTER I. BECCARIA’S LIFE AND CHARACTER.
5. 5.CHAPTER II. THE GENERAL INFLUENCE OF BECCARIA ON LEGISLATION.
6. 6.CHAPTER III. THE INFLUENCE OF BECCARIA IN ENGLAND.
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. THE PROBLEMS OF PENOLOGY.
8. 8.FOOTNOTES
9. 9.DEI DELITTI E DELLE PENE. — TO THE READER. — CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. — CHAPTER II. THE ORIGIN OF PUNISHMENTS—THE RIGHT OF PUNISHMENT. — CHAPTER III. CONSEQUENCES. — CHAPTER IV. INTERPRETATION OF THE LAWS. — CHAPTER V. OBSCURITY OF THE LAWS. — CHAPTER VI. IMPRISONMENT. — CHAPTER VII. PROOFS AND FORMS OF JUDGMENT. — CHAPTER VIII. WITNESSES. — CHAPTER IX. SECRET ACCUSATIONS. — CHAPTER X. SUGGESTIVE INTERROGATIONS—DEPOSITIONS. — CHAPTER XI. OATHS. — CHAPTER XII. TORTURE. — CHAPTER XIII. PROSECUTIONS AND PRESCRIPTIONS. — CHAPTER XIV. CRIMINAL ATTEMPTS, ACCOMPLICES, IMPUNITY. — CHAPTER XV. THE MILDNESS OF PUNISHMENTS. — CHAPTER XVI. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. — CHAPTER XVII. BANISHMENT AND CONFISCATIONS. — CHAPTER XVIII. INFAMY. — CHAPTER XIX. THE PROMPTNESS OF PUNISHMENTS. — CHAPTER XX. CERTAINTY OF PUNISHMENTS—PARDONS. — CHAPTER XXI. ASYLUMS OF REFUGE. — CHAPTER XXII. OF PROSCRIPTION. — CHAPTER XXIII. PROPORTION BETWEEN CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. — CHAPTER XXIV. THE MEASURE OF PUNISHMENTS. — CHAPTER XXV. THE DIVISION OF PUNISHMENTS. — CHAPTER XXVI. CRIMES OF HIGH TREASON. — CHAPTER XXVII. CRIMES AGAINST PERSONAL SECURITY—ACTS OF VIOLENCE—PUNISHMENTS OF NOBLES. — CHAPTER XXVIII. OF INJURIES AND OF HONOUR. — CHAPTER XXIX. DUELS. — CHAPTER XXX. THEFTS. — CHAPTER XXXI. SMUGGLING. — CHAPTER XXXII. OF DEBTORS. — CHAPTER XXXIII. OF THE PUBLIC TRANQUILLITY. — CHAPTER XXXIV. OF POLITICAL IDLENESS. — CHAPTER XXXV. SUICIDE AND ABSENCE. — CHAPTER XXXVI. CRIMES OF DIFFICULT PROOF. — CHAPTER XXXVII. OF A PARTICULAR KIND OF CRIME. — CHAPTER XXXVIII. FALSE IDEAS OF UTILITY. — CHAPTER XXXIX. OF FAMILY SPIRIT. — CHAPTER XL. OF THE TREASURY. — CHAPTER XLI. THE PREVENTION OF CRIMES—OF KNOWLEDGE—MAGISTRATES—REWARDS—EDUCATION. — CHAPTER XLII. CONCLUSION. — FOOTNOTES

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