Crimes and Punishments: Including a New Translation of Beccaria's 'Dei Delitti E Delle Pene,' |
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... CUSTOMS . By JAMES A. FARRER . ' A book which is really both instructive and amusing , and which will open a new field of thought to many readers .'- ATHENÆUM . ' An admirable example of the application of the scientific method and the ...
... CUSTOMS . By JAMES A. FARRER . ' A book which is really both instructive and amusing , and which will open a new field of thought to many readers .'- ATHENÆUM . ' An admirable example of the application of the scientific method and the ...
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... custom contrary to the spirit of the laws : its evil results - Limitations to the universality of the custom - Its error of principle proved by number of re - convictions - The preventiveness of punish- ment diminished by its great ...
... custom contrary to the spirit of the laws : its evil results - Limitations to the universality of the custom - Its error of principle proved by number of re - convictions - The preventiveness of punish- ment diminished by its great ...
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... customs of Lombardy remained the same ; and the cruel legal procedure by torture existed still , untouched by the salutary reforms effected in other departments of the Government . There was the preparatory torture , to extort confes ...
... customs of Lombardy remained the same ; and the cruel legal procedure by torture existed still , untouched by the salutary reforms effected in other departments of the Government . There was the preparatory torture , to extort confes ...
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... customs of the world have been due to writers under thirty years of age . The following letter by Beccaria to the Abbé Morellet in acknowledgment of the latter's transla- tion of his treatise is perhaps the best introduction to the life ...
... customs of the world have been due to writers under thirty years of age . The following letter by Beccaria to the Abbé Morellet in acknowledgment of the latter's transla- tion of his treatise is perhaps the best introduction to the life ...
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... custom , contained but little about penal laws ; but the idea is there started for the first time that . crimes ... customs of the country ; and eight days of prison or a slight fine have as much terror for a European brought up in a ...
... custom , contained but little about penal laws ; but the idea is there started for the first time that . crimes ... customs of the country ; and eight days of prison or a slight fine have as much terror for a European brought up in a ...
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abolished accused actions authority Beccaria BESANT and JAMES BRET HARTE capital punishment certainty CHAPTER citizen cloth extra cloth limp committed condemned conviction crime and punishment criminal law Crown 8vo custom death Delitti Demy 8vo depends Edited England English enlightened equally evil Facsimile fact favour fear feeling felony force gilt greater guilty happiness honour human ideas imprisonment impunity increase individual infamy inflicted injury innocent interest JAMES PAYN JAMES RICE judge justice JUSTIN MCCARTHY kind latter legislation less liberty lives Lord Ellenborough MACQUOID mankind MARK TWAIN ment minds moral murder nation nature necessary numerous Illustrations object offences opinion OUIDA Paley passions penal laws penal servitude penalty person philosophy Pietro Pietro Verri pleasure political prevention of crime principles prison proofs proportion reason reform Romilly sentence society sovereign stealing theft thing tion torture Translated truth virtue Vols whilst WILKIE COLLINS WILLIAM HURRELL MALLOCK
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