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Marquis of Beccaria. Cesare Beccaria or Caesar, Marchese Di Beccaria Bonesana (March 11, 1738 – November 28, 1794) was an Italian criminologist and economist. His work was significant in the development of Utilitarianism. Beccaria advocated swift punishment as the best form of deterrent to crime.

prominent eighteenth-century Italian thinker Cesare Beccaria were deeply . influential on the American Founders’ views of criminal law and theory. Courts, lawyers, and legal observers recently have begun to appreciate . Beccaria’s influence, including on such timely topics as the pardon power,

Cesare Beccaria was one of the most important influences upon American attitudes toward criminal justice. Abstract Beccaria emphasized individual dignity within the criminal justice system. He stood against the use of torture and capital punishment.

Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) – philosopher, economist, and jurist and one of the most prominent representatives of the intellectual milieu of the Enlightenment – started writing Dei Delitti e delle Pene (On Crimes and Punishments) in 1763. He published it anonymously in Livorno, Italy, in 1764 at the age of twenty-six.

Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio was an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist and politician, who is widely considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment.

Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794) was an Italian jurist and philosopher. In little over a hundred pages, in 1764, he formulated the basis of modern criminal law. The explicit aim of his On crimes and punishments was that of studying and combatting “the cruelty of punishments and the irregularities of criminal procedures” (Beccaria 2008 : 10).

Cesare Beccaria ranked amongst the most remarkable intellectual minds of the Enlightenment era of the 18 th century. His literary contributions have led to ground-breaking evolution in the fields of economics and criminology. Cesare was born on March 15, 1738, in Milan, Italy.

CESARE BECCARIA(1738-1794)from Of Crimes and Punishments. Cesare Bonesana Beccaria was an Italian jurist and economist. Born of aristocratic parents in Milan, he was educated in a Jesuit school in Parma, which he found stifling to his character.