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Cesare Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments
Cesare Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments

Origin

Cesare Beccaria

Type

Novel

Effects

Tortures Victim

Downsides

Effect

Activation

Opening

Section

The Library Section

Aisle

Reference Section

[Source]


Origin[]

Cesare Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments is a treatise condemning torture and the death penalty and was the founding work in the field of penology. Beccaria and his brothers Pietro and Alessandro Verri started the cultural reformist movement. One Crimes and Punishments marked the highpoint of the Milan Enlightenment. In it the first modern arguments against the death penalty was described. The book was the first full-scale work to tackle criminal reform and to suggest that criminal justice should conform to rational principles.

Effects[]

When opened, enforces pain equal to torture.

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