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Today marks the 38th installment in a series of articles by HumanProgress.org titled Heroes of Progress. This bi-weekly column provides a short introduction to heroes who have made an extraordinary contribution to the well-being of humanity. You can find the 37th part of this series here.

This week, our hero is the 18th century Italian criminologist Cesare Beccaria. Beccaria was the first modern writer to advocate for the abolition of capital punishment and the end of cruel torturous punishments. Beccaria believed that penalties for crimes should be proportional to the severity of the offense and that criminals should not be punished until proven guilty in a court of law. Many consider Beccaria to be the father of criminal justice. Thanks to his work, many nations were inspired to enact extensive legislative reforms to ensure due process, and the end of torture and capital punishment.

Cesare Beccaria was born March 15, 1738 in Milan, Italy. His father was an aristocrat on a moderate income. At the age of eight, Beccaria was sent to a Jesuit boarding school in Parma. Beccaria e

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Cesare Beccaria or Caesar, Marchese Di Beccaria Bonesana (March 11, 1738 – November 28, 1794) was an Italiancriminologist and economist. His work was significant in the development of Utilitarianism. Beccaria advocated swift punishment as the best form of deterrent to crime. His best known work was his treatise On Crimes and Punishments (1764), which condemned torture and the death penalty and was a pioneering study in the field of criminology. He argued that capital punishment was neither useful as a deterrent, nor was it necessary or ethically appropriate for the state to take the life of any of its citizens.

Beccaria's view of government was that it should work to prevent crime, rather than focus on punishment; and that effort spent on education and rewarding good behavior would reap better results and bring about greater happiness for all. His ideas, although not adopted in their entirety, were nonetheless highly influential in reforming European laws, and in forming the United States Constitution and American criminal justice system.

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Major Works of Cesare Beccaria

  • Del disordine e de' rimedi delle monete nello stato di Milano, 1762 [Opere 1822 ed; 1854 ed]
  • [Anon.] "Al Lettore", 1764, Il Caffè  [v.1,, fl.1-2 (1-10 June, 1764)] [1766 ed, v.1  p.iii]
  • [C.] "Giuoco del Faraone calcolate", 1764, Il Caffè  [v.1, fl.1-2 (1-10 June, 1764), p.6-13] [1766 ed, v.1  p.9]
  • [Anon]  "Frammento sugli Odori", 1764, Il Caffè [v.1, fl..3-4, (20 Jun-1 Jul, 1764),, p.23-29 ] [1766 ed, v.1  p.36]
  • [C.] "Risposta alla Rinunzia degli autori dei presente foglio al Vocabolario della Crusca", 1764, Il Caffè  [v.1, fl.9 (20 Aug, 1764), p.69-71], [1766 ed. v.1 p.118]
  • [C.] "Tentativo analitico su i Contrabbandi", 1764, Il Caffè  [v.1, fl.15 (20 Oct, 1764), p.118-19] ], [1766 ed. v.1, p.207]  
  • [C.]  "Frammento sullo Stile", 1765, Il Caffè [v.11, fl.25 (1 Feb, 1765), p.193-97], [1766 ed. v.1  p.343]
  • [Anon] "De' fogli Periodici",  1765, Il Caffè [v.

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