Leading 18th-Century Works on Punishment
Books published in the 18th century, widely known in the public sphere in England during that century, and discussing lawful punishment in detail.
Topic Collection: Beccaria
Cesare Beccaria on punishment and communication with persons being punished.
Beccaria’s and Bentham’s Analysis of Prisoners’ Communication
Beccaria and Bentham, proto-economists who wrote extensively on crime and punishment, contributed little to regulating prisoners’ communication.
The Rhetoric of the Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number
Beccaria’s and Bentham’s happiness maximization seems to have been fundamentally exhortative rather than consequentially calculative.