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Cesare Beccaria
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 crim…
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culture · Italian jurist and criminologist (1738–1794) · philosopher · jurist · criminologist · economist · also Cesare Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana-Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana, Marquis of Beccaria, Beccaria
Born 15 March 1738 · Died 20 November 1794 · Q223723
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Died 1794-11-20.
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