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Cesare Beccaria On Crime And Punishment

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Cesare Beccaria was known as one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment period. He specialized in work revolving around criminology, and for this reason, is thought to be a father of classical criminal theory and modern penology. His most prized work and well known writing is On Crime and Punishments, which supported the idea of a fixed scale of crime and a punishment that fit the severity of the crime. Beccaria thought that the role of a judge should be limited when referring to the guilt or innocence of the convicted. The judge should only have the power to say whether a law has been broken. This way those who were corrupted would be eliminated from the system. The only people who should be allowed to have a say is the legislatures.
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