by Cesare Beccaria · Compañía Europea de Comunicación e Información · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788479690090
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«De los delitos y de las penas» is the essay by Cesare Beccaria, published by Compañía Europea de Comunicación e Información in paperback (96 pages).
Beccaria examines the criminal justice system of his time and advocates for clear laws proportionate to the crime. He rejects torture as a means of proof and the death penalty, and argues that the purpose of punishment is to prevent crime and protect the common good.
The work was originally published in Italian as «Dei delitti e delle pene»; this 1991 edition belongs to the Biblioteca de El Sol collection.
Recommended for readers of philosophy, law, and the history of ideas, and for anyone wishing to learn about a key work of penal thought.
Cesare Beccaria Bonesana, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio was an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist, and politician. 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.
