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I shall not elaborately summarize Beccaria’s famous essay in this Introduction, though I hope the readers will absorb carefully every word of this, the most significant essay on crime and punishment in Western civilization.
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Early English-Language References to Beccaria
G. Chinard, ed. (1939). The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson: A Repertory of His Ideas on Government 38–39.
Etas Unis,“ prepared for the Encyclopedie Methodique. See S. Padover, ed. (1943). The Complete Jefferson 61.
L.H. Butterfield, ed. (1961). Diary and Autobiography of John Adams 352.
Gordon S. Wood. (1969). The Creation of the American Republic 1 776–1 787 300, 301, 303.
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Wolfgang, M.E. (2002). Of Crimes and Punishments. In: Silverman, R.A., Thornberry, T.P., Cohen, B., Krisberg, B. (eds) Crime and Justice at the Millennium. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4883-3_26
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