Re-reading Beccaria on the contemporary significance of a penal classic / edited by Antje du Bois-Pedain and Shachar Eldar.
| Other author | Du Bois-Pedain, Antje. |
| Other author | Eldar, Shaḥar. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Hart, 2022. |
| Description | viii, 335 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in penal theory and penal ethics ; volume 8 |
| Contents | Introduction / Antje du Bois-Pedain and Shachar Eldar -- Beccaria's political theory of criminal justice / Lorenzo Zucca -- Reconstructing Beccaria's Social Contract / Matt Matravers -- Beccaria's Contractarian Criminal Law : jurisdiction, punishments and rewards / RA Duff and SE Marshall -- Crime, punishment and the social contract : towards the constitutionalisation of criminal law / Antje du Bois-Pedain -- Beccaria, treason and the social contract / Anat Scolnicov -- Beccaria's secular metaphysics : pain, time and state authority / Shai Lavi -- Public institutions without public offices : Beccaria's use of political theory in the reform of criminal justice / Malcolm Thorburn -- Realism and the rational administration of the law in Beccaria / Vincent Chiao -- Beccaria now : (re)reading on crimes and punishments / Paul Roberts -- Should murder be more difficult to prove than theft? Beccaria and differential standards of proof / Amit Pundik -- Cesare Beccaria's integrative deterrence approach / Mordechai Kremnitzer and Adi Gal -- Human rights and criminal law : from Beccaria's on crimes and punishments to modern criminal law / Miriam Gur-Arye -- Beccaria on the Human Rights Committee? An excursus on the parameters of human rights and penology / Leslie Sebba and Rachela Er'el -- Criminal justice reform in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Habsburgian Lombardy and Tuscany : Beccaria's policy memoranda in context / Antje du Bois-Pedain. |
| Abstract | "This book considers the way that Cesare Beccaria's slim 1764 volume On Crimes and Punishments influenced policy developments worldwide and over decades, if not centuries, after its publication. For those who turn to Beccaria's work today, the encounter is shaped by that knowledge. Appreciative of his book's dual nature as historical document and repository of ideas, the contributions in this collection address different aspects of the criminal justice theory Beccaria offered his readers and face up to methodological questions raised by meeting a historical text of this kind - unsystematic and by modern standards often under-argued - with modern scholarly conventions in mind. Contributions in the first part of the book engage with Beccaria's 'political theory of criminal justice' through the lenses of political and penal philosophy. How do we get from Beccaria's blending of social-contractarian foundations and proto-utilitarian policy analysis to the concrete set of criminal justice practices Beccaria presents as justified? This leads across to the second part where contributors approach Beccaria's ideas with present-day reforms and developments in mind. Many of his policy proposals and arguments remain significant from our contemporary perspective, their limitations and omissions proving as instructive for the contemporary scholar as their more prescient elements. The third part offers those looking at Beccaria's work today a glimpse into the practical difficulties facing the firebrand author turned public servant during his long career in the Habsburg-Lombardian administration. It puts his work into the broader context of pathways to criminal justice reform in northern Italy, Habsburgian Lombardy, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Beccaria's day"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Based on papers presented at "Two workshops ... held to explore Beccaria's arguments and ideas from the vantage point of contemporary criminal justice scholarship - the first at Ono Academic College in Tel Aviv in the spring of 2018, the second in Cambridge in July 2019" -- University of Cambridge website. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022031276 |
| ISBN | 9781509959136 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781509959174 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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