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Cesare Beccaria |
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Tortures Victim |
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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.
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When opened, enforces pain equal to torture.