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Crimes and Punishments

by James Anson Farrer

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Chapter I — Beccaria’s Life and Character
  4. 4Chapter II — The General Influence of Beccaria on Legislation
  5. 5Chapter III — The Influence of Beccaria in England
  6. 6Chapter IV — The Problems of Penology
  7. 7Dei Delitti E delle Pene
  8. 8To the Reader
  9. 9Chapter I — Introduction
  10. 10Chapter II — The Origin of Punishments — The Right of Punishment
  11. 11Chapter III — Consequences
  12. 12Chapter IV — Interpretation of the Laws
  13. 13Chapter V — Obscurity of the Laws
  14. 14Chapter VI — Imprisonment
  15. 15Chapter VII — Proofs and Forms of Judgment
  16. 16Chapter VIII — Witnesses
  17. 17Chapter IX — Secret Accusations
  18. 18Chapter X — Suggestive Interrogations — Depositions
  19. 19Chapter XI — Oaths
  20. 20Chapter XII — Torture
  21. 21Chapter XIII — Prosecutions and Prescriptions
  22. 22Chapter XIV — Criminal Attempts, Accomplices, Impunity
  23. 23Chapter XV — The Mildness of Punishments
  24. 24Chapter XVI — Capital Punishment
  25. 25Chapter XVII — Banishment and Confiscations
  26. 26Chapter XVIII — Infamy
  27. 27Chapter XIX — The Promptness of Punishments
  28. 28Chapter XX — Certainty of Punishments — Pardons
  29. 29Chapter XXI — Asylums of Refuge
  30. 30Chapter XXII — Of Proscription
  31. 31Chapter XXIII — Proportion Between Crimes and Punishments
  32. 32Chapter XXIV — The Measure of Punishments
  33. 33Chapter XXV — The Division of Punishments
  34. 34Chapter XXVI — Crimes of High Treason
  35. 35Chapter XXVII — Crimes Against Personal Security — Acts of Violence…
  36. 36Chapter XXVIII — Of Injuries and of Honour
  37. 37Chapter XXIX — Duels
  38. 38Chapter XXX — Thefts
  39. 39Chapter XXXI — Smuggling
  40. 40Chapter XXXII — Of Debtors
  41. 41Chapter XXXIII — Of the Public Tranquillity
  42. 42Chapter XXXIV — Of Political Idleness
  43. 43Chapter XXXV — Suicide and Absence
  44. 44Chapter XXXVI — Crimes of Difficult Proof
  45. 45Chapter XXXVII — Of a Particular Kind of Crime
  46. 46Chapter XXXVIII — False Ideas of Utility
  47. 47Chapter XXXIX — Of Family Spirit
  48. 48Chapter XL — Of the Treasury
  49. 49Chapter XLI — The Prevention of Crimes — Of Knowledge — Magistrates…
  50. 50Chapter XLII — Conclusion

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