CESARE BONESANA BECCARIA By Billy Cashman Adamina Serratos

CESARE BONESANA BECCARIA By: Billy Cashman, Adamina Serratos, Alan Duran, and Anmol Singh

Early Life -Born March 15, 1738 in Milan, Italy -Sent to Jesuit school in Parma, Italy when he was 8 years old -He received a degree of law in 1758 from the University of Pavia

Main Beliefs ● Beccaria believed that laws existed to maintain social order, not to get revenge for crimes. ● A person who is on trial for a crime should have a quick trial without torturing witnesses. ● He thought capital punishment should be abolished. ● Most importantly, he said that the degree of punishment should be decided by the degree of

Published Works ● On Crimes and Punishment-1764 ● An essay on crimes and punishment-1793

Influences/Legacies -Beccaria’s criminal justice ideas influenced the U. S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and justice system, through his ideas of prosecution, punishment, and arrest -His ideas had torture outlawed or reduced in Europe and the Americas

Quotes - Beccaria “Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment. ” “The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly. ” “Happy is the nation without a history. ”

Works Cited Cesare Beccaria. (n. d. ). Retrieved October 24, 2017, from Beccaria, C. , V. , Young, W. , & Tiffany, I. H. (1793). https: //www. biblio. com/cesare-beccaria/author/37920 An essay on crimes and punishment. Philadelphia: Allen, F. A. (2017, June 20). Cesare Beccaria. Retrieved October 23, 2017, Printed by William Young, No. 52, Second-street, the corner of from https: //www. britannica. com/biography/Cesare-Beccaria Chestnut-street Cesare Beccaria. (n. d. ). Retrieved October 23, 2017, from https: //www. biblio. com/cesare-beccaria/author/37920 Cesare Beccaria > Quotes. (n. d. ). Retrieved October 23, 2017, from https: //www. goodreads. com/author/quotes/4790. Cesare_Beccari a Cesara, B. (1963). On Crime and Punishment. Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill