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Beccaria Treatise On Crimes And Punishments 1771The description of this item has been automatically translated. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.BECCARIA, Marquis CESARTreatise on Crimes and Punishments. With additions by the author which have not yet appeared in Italian & to which has been added the Commentary on this book, made by M. de VoltaireAmsterdam, E. van Harrevelt (1771). XXXVI & 256 pp., in 12, half-leather binding, missing top head cape , A first French edition of this highly influential book on the reform of the penal system, originally published in Italian. The author was a professor of law and economics in Milan and argued convincingly that “the seriousness of a crime should be measured by its harm to society and that punishments should be linked to this.” He denounced the use of capital punishment and torture… the work discusses laws against homosexuality and other sexual offenses. This is the third edition and the first to appear with the introduction of Voltaire Treatise on Crimes and Punishments. With additions by the author which have not yet appeared in Italian & to which has been added the Commentary on this book, made by M. de Voltaire Amsterdam, E. van Harrevelt (1771). XXXVI & 256 pp., in 12, half-leather binding, missing top head cape ,  A first French edition of this highly influential book on the reform of the penal system, originally published in Italian. The author was a professor of law and economics in Milan and argued convincingly that “the seriousness of a crime should be measured by its harm to society and that punishments should be linked to this.” He denounced the use of capital punishment and torture… the work discusses laws against homosexuality and other sexual offenses. This is the third edition and the first to appear wit