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  2. Cesare Beccaria - Wikipedia

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    Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio [1] (Italian: [ˈtʃeːzare bekkaˈriːa, ˈtʃɛː-]; 15 March 1738 – 28 November 1794) was an Italian criminologist, [2] jurist, philosopher, economist, and politician who is widely considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment.

  3. Capital punishment debate in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The media's ability to reframe capital punishment and, by extension, affect people's support of capital punishment, while still appealing to their pre-existing ideological beliefs that may traditionally contradict death penalty support is a testament to the complexities embedded in the media's shaping of people's beliefs about capital punishment.

  4. Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    The British government, for the most part, ignored the Enlightenment's leaders in England and Scotland, although it did give Newton a knighthood and a very lucrative government office. A common theme among most countries which derived Enlightenment ideas from Europe was the intentional non-inclusion of Enlightenment philosophies pertaining to ...

  5. Italian Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    Statue of Cesare Beccaria, widely considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment.. The Enlightenment in Italy (Italian: Illuminismo italiano) was a cultural and philosophical movement that began in the second half of the eighteenth century, characterized by the discussion of the epistemological, ethical, and political issues of the Enlightenment thought of the eighteenth ...

  6. Classical school (criminology) - Wikipedia

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    In criminology, the classical school usually refers to the 18th-century work during the Enlightenment by the utilitarian and social-contract philosophers Jeremy Bentham and Cesare Beccaria. Their interests lay in the system of criminal justice and penology and indirectly through the proposition that "man is a calculating animal," in the causes ...

  7. On Crimes and Punishments - Wikipedia

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    On Crimes and Punishments (Italian: Dei delitti e delle pene [dei deˈlitti e ddelle ˈpeːne]) is a treatise written by Cesare Beccaria in 1764. The treatise condemned torture and the death penalty and was a founding work in the field of penology .

  8. Principle of legality in French criminal law - Wikipedia

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    The principle of legality of punishment and crime was identified and conceptualized in the Enlightenment.It is generally attributed to Cesare Beccaria but Montesquieu indicated that "the judges of the Nation are only the mouth that pronounces the words of the law" [b] as early as 1748, in The Spirit of the Law (French: L'Esprit des lois

  9. Principle of legality in criminal law - Wikipedia

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    The principle of legality in criminal law [1] was developed in the eighteenth century by the Italian criminal lawyer Cesare Beccaria and holds that no one can be convicted of a crime without a previously published legal text which clearly describes the crime (Latin: nulla poena sine lege, lit. 'no punishment without law').