Cesare Beccaria
Jurist, philosopher and politician from Italy (1738-1794)
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Beccaria's 1764 treatise On Crimes and Punishments basically invented modern criminal justice by arguing torture and execution were barbaric. His ideas shaped legal systems across Europe and the Americas, making him the blueprint guy for how we think about punishment today.
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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.
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