On Crimes and Punishments

Contents:

Acknowledgements, Translator’s Preface, Note on the Text, Further Reading

On Crimes and Punishments

To the Reader
Introduction

I. Origin of Punishments
II. The Right to Punish
III. Consequences
IV. Interpretation of the Law
V. Obscurity of Laws
VI. Proportion between Crimes and Punishments
VII. Errors in the Measurement of Punishments
VIII. Division of Crimes
IX. Honor
X. Duels
XI. Public Tranquility
XII. Purpose of Punishments
XIII. Witnesses
XIV. Evidence and Forms of Judgment
XV. Secret Accusations
XVI. Torture
XVII. The Public Treasury
XVIII. Oaths
XIX. Promptness of Punishment
XX. Crimes of Violence
XXI. Punishment of Nobles
XXII. Thefts
XXIII. Infamy
XXIV. Political Idleness
XXV. Banishment and Confiscations
XXVI. The Spirit of the Family
XXVII. Mildness of Punishments
XXVIII. The Death Penalty
XXIX. Imprisonment
XXX. Proceedings and Limitations on Criminal Prosecution
XXXI. Crimes Difficult to Prove
XXXII. Suicide
XXXIII. Smuggling
XXXIV. Debtors
XXXV. Places of Asylum
XXXVI. Bounties
XXXVII. Attempted Crimes, Accomplices, and Impunity
XXXVIII. Suggestive Interrogations and Depositions
XXXIX. A Particular Kind of Crime
XL. False Ideas of Utility
XLI. How to Prevent Crimes
XLII. Knowledge
XLIII. Magistrates
XLIV. Rewards
XLV. Education
XLVI. Of Pardons
XLVII. Conclusion

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