TY - DATA AU - Du Bois-Pedain ,Antje AU - Eldar,Shachar TI - Re-reading Beccaria: on the contemporary significance of a penal classic T2 - Studies in penal theory and penal ethics AV - K5015.4 R47 2022 PY - 2022/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Publishing KW - Beccaria, Cesare, KW - Criminal law KW - Philosophy KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Criminology KW - Punishment KW - Capital punishment N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Antje du Bois-Pedain (University of Cambridge, UK) and Shachar Eldar (Ono Academic College, Israel) -- Part I: Locating Beccaria's Contribution to Penal and Political Philosophy -- 1. Beccaria's Political Theory of Criminal Justice -- Lorenzo Zucca (King's College London, UK) -- 2. Reconstructing Beccaria's Social Contract: Rights, Utility, and Punishment -- Matt Matravers (University of York, UK) -- 3. Beccaria's Contractarian Criminal Law: Jurisdiction, Punishments and Rewards -- Antony Duff (University of Stirling, UK) -- 4 Punishment and the Social Contract: Beccaria's Political Constitution of Criminal Law -- Antje du Bois-Pedain (University of Cambridge, UK) -- 5. Beccaria, Treason and the Social Contract -- Anat Scolnicov (Winchester University, UK) -- 6. Beccaria's Secular Metaphysics: Pain, Time, and State Authority -- Shai Lavi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) -- 7. Public Institutions Without Public Offices: Beccaria's Use of Political Theory in the Reform of Criminal Justice -- Malcolm Thorburn (University of Toronto, Canada) -- 8: Realism and the Rational Administration of the Law in Beccaria -- Vincent Chia (University of Richmond, Canada) -- Part II: Locating Beccaria in Present-Day Discourses on Criminal Justice -- 9. Beccaria Now: (Re)reading 'On Crimes and Punishments' -- Paul Roberts (University of Nottingham, UK) -- 10. Should Murder Be More Difficult to Prove than Theft? Beccaria and Differential Standards of Proof -- Amit Pundik (Tel Aviv University, Israel) -- 11. Cesare Beccaria's Integrative Deterrence Approach -- Mordechai Kremnitzer (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) -- 12. Human Rights and Criminal Law: From Beccaria's 'On Crimes and Punishments' to Modern Criminal Law -- Miriam Gur-Arye (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) -- 13. Beccaria on the Human Rights Committee? An Excursus on the Parameters of Human Rights and Penology -- Leslie Sebba (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) -- Part III: Locating Beccaria in the Criminal Justice Practice of His Time -- 14. Prospects and Pathways to Criminal Justice Reform in Northern Italy, Habsburgian Lombardy, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Beccaria's Policy Memoranda in Context -- Antje du Bois-Pedain (University of Cambridge, UK) -- Appendix 1: Cesare Beccaria, 'Brief observations on the General Code on Crimes and Punishments as regards policy offences [1787] -- Appendix 2: 'Opinion of the Undersigned Members of the Committee Charged with the Reform of the Criminal System in Austrian Lombardy for Matters Pertaining to Capital Punishment' [1792] N2 - "This book considers the way that Cesare Beccaria's slim 1764 volume On Crimes and Punishments influenced policy developments worldwide and over decades, if not centuries, after its publication. For those who turn to Beccaria's work today, the encounter is shaped by that knowledge. Appreciative of his book's dual nature as historical document and repository of ideas, the contributions in this collection address different aspects of the criminal justice theory Beccaria offered his readers and face up to methodological questions raised by meeting a historical text of this kind - unsystematic and by modern standards often under-argued - with modern scholarly conventions in mind. Contributions in the first part of the book engage with Beccaria's 'political theory of criminal justice' through the lenses of political and penal philosophy. How do we get from Beccaria's blending of social-contractarian foundations and proto-utilitarian policy analysis to the concrete set of criminal justice practices Beccaria presents as justified? This leads across to the second part where contributors approach Beccaria's ideas with present-day reforms and developments in mind. Many of his policy proposals and arguments remain significant from our contemporary perspective, their limitations and omissions proving as instructive for the contemporary scholar as their more prescient elements. The third part offers those looking at Beccaria's work today a glimpse into the practical difficulties facing the firebrand author turned public servant during his long career in the Habsburg-Lombardian administration. It puts his work into the broader context of pathways to criminal justice reform in northern Italy, Habsburgian Lombardy, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Beccaria's day"-- UR - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509959167?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections ER -