Tratado de los delitos y de las penas (Letra Grande)

Author:   Cesare Beccaria ,  Juan Antonio de Las Casas
Publisher:   Alicia Editions
Edition:   Large type / large print edition
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9782357288621


Pages:   174
Publication Date:   24 June 2021
Format:   Paperback
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Tratado de los delitos y de las penas (Letra Grande)


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""La gravedad de las penas debe ser relativa al estado de la nación misma. Más fuertes y sensibles deben ser las impresiones sobre los ánimos endurecidos de un pueblo recién salido del estado de barbarie. Al feroz león, que se revuelve al golpe de un arma limitada, lo abate el rayo. Pero a medida que los ánimos se suavizan en el estado de sociedad, crece la sensibilidad, y creciendo ésta, debe disminuirse la fuerza de la pena, siempre que quiera mantenerse una relación constante entre el objeto y la sensación."" Este tratado está considerado como uno de los libros más influyentes en la reforma del antiguo derecho penal continental. En el se exponen ideas que hoy se asocian con frecuencia a los fundamentos del derecho moderno (Las penas deben ser iguales para todos los ciudadanos; El poder legislativo y el judicial deben estar separados; No se debe aplicar castigos inhumanos...etc). English description: ""The severity of punishments must be proportionate to the condition of the nation itself. Stronger and more striking impressions may be required for a people newly emerged from barbarism. A fierce lion that resists the blow of a weak weapon is struck down by lightning. Yet as society grows more civilized, sensitivity increases; and as that sensitivity deepens, the harshness of punishment must diminish, if a just balance between offense and penalty is to be preserved."" Long regarded as a cornerstone of modern criminal justice, this powerful treatise challenged torture, arbitrary sentencing, and the death penalty at a time when such practices were widely accepted. Its arguments for proportional punishment, equality before the law, and the separation of legislative and judicial powers helped lay the intellectual foundations of contemporary legal reform. A bold Enlightenment defense of humanity in law, this work remains strikingly relevant in ongoing debates over capital punishment and the limits of state power.

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Author:   Cesare Beccaria ,  Juan Antonio de Las Casas
Publisher:   Alicia Editions
Imprint:   Alicia Editions
Edition:   Large type / large print edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.263kg
ISBN:  

9782357288621


ISBN 10:   2357288620
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   24 June 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Language:   Spanish

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"" Este pequeño libro ha hecho más bien que todos los libros de moral. "" - Voltaire, Comentario sobre el libro de los delitos y las penas (1766) ""This little book has done more good than all the books of morality."" - Voltaire, Commentary on the Book On Crimes and Punishments (1766) ""Los cuatro primeros presidentes de los Estados Unidos, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson y James Madison, se inspiraron en el tratado de Beccaria y, en algunos casos, lo leyeron en el italiano original. De los delitos y de las penas ayudó a catalizar la Revolución Americana, y las posturas de Beccaria contra la pena de muerte influyeron de manera decisiva en el pensamiento estadounidense sobre la pena capital, la tortura y la crueldad. Los documentos fundacionales de Estados Unidos, la Declaración de Independencia, la Constitución y la Carta de Derechos, también estuvieron influidos por el tratado de Beccaria y por su insistencia en que las leyes debían estar escritas y aplicarse de manera menos arbitraria."" - John D. Bessler, The Italian Enlightenment and the American Revolution: Cesare Beccaria's Forgotten Influence on American Law (2017) ""The first four U.S. Presidents, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, were inspired by Beccaria's treatise and, in some cases, read it in the original Italian. On Crimes and Punishments helped to catalyze the American Revolution, and Beccaria's anti-death penalty views materially shaped American thought on capital punishment, torture and cruelty. America's foundational legal documents, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the U.S. Bill of Rights, were themselves shaped by Beccaria's treatise and its insistence that laws be in writing and be enforced in a less arbitrary manner."" - John D. Bessler, The Italian Enlightenment and the American Revolution: Cesare Beccaria's Forgotten Influence on American Law (2017)


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