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Cesare Beccaria

Cesare Bonesana-Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio (Italian: [ˈtʃeːzare bekkaˈriːa]; 15 March 1738 – 28 November 1794) was an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, and politician, who is widely considered as the most talented jurist and one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment. 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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The laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity. . . will respect the less important and arbitrary ones. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Gun, Law, Laws, Men, Sacred, Violate

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Confidence, Encourage, Greater, Law, May, Men

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

Child, Childhood, Children, Faults, Loses, Punished

Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

Against, Committing, Crime, Law, Weapons

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

Death, Judging, Nation, Punishment, War

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

Idea, Inconvenience, Laws, Men, Real, Sacrifice

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

Certainty, Crime, Punishment, Severity

Happy is the nation without a history.

Happy, History, Nation, Nations, Rehabilitation

For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. If the judge were constrained, or if he desired to frame even a single additional syllogism, the door would thereby be opened to uncertainty.

Complete, Crime, Desired, Doors, Law, Punishment

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Crime, Crimes, Pragmatism, Prevent, Punish

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

Committing, Crime, Intensity, Men, Suffice