{"product_id":"rereading-beccaria-9781509959174","title":"ReReading Beccaria","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCesare Beccaria's slim 1764 volume \u003ci\u003eOn Crimes and Punishments\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppreciative of \u003ci\u003eOn Crimes and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003es'' dual nature as historical document and repository of ideas, the contributions in this collection address different aspects of the criminal justice theory Beccaria offered his readers and face up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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributions in the first part of the book engage with Beccaria's political theory of criminal justice through the lenses of political and penal philosophy, considering how Beccaria's blending of social-contractarian foundations and proto-utilitarian policy analysis interlinks with the concrete set of criminal justice practices Beccaria presents as justified.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis leads on 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188040360279,"sku":"9781509959174","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rereading-beccaria-9781509959174","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}