Reference point: Ch. 26. This and subsequent quotes are from the first English translation (1767), which Bentham and other late-eighteenth-century legal reformers read.
reference-type: Book
author: Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana
year: 1764
title: Of Crimes and Punishment
series-editor: Bellamy, Richard
place-published: Oxford
publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
publication-date: 1995
translator: Davies, Richard
original-title: Dei delitti e delle pene
otx-key: Beccaria-1764
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