{"product_id":"re-reading-beccaria-andreas-von-hirsch-9781509959136","title":"Re-Reading Beccaria: On the Contemporary Significance of a Penal Classic","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book considers the way that Cesare 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor those who turn to Beccaria's work today, the encounter is shaped by that knowledge. Appreciative of his book's dual nature as historical document and repository of ideas, the contributions in this collection address different aspects of the criminal justice theory Beccaria offered his readers and face up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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. How do we get from Beccaria's blending of social-contractarian foundations and proto-utilitarian policy analysis to the concrete set of criminal justice practices Beccaria presents as justified? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis leads across 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Antje Du Bois Pedain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1509959130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781509959136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d","brand":"Antje Du Bois Pedain","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44071569195263,"sku":"9781509959136","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a695b528-01f5-4bb8-9501-2d876744ef60.jpg?v=1685436884","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/re-reading-beccaria-andreas-von-hirsch-9781509959136","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}