Item of the Day: Beccaria’s Crimes and Punishments (1788)

Full Title:
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments The Marquis Beccaria of Milan. With a Commentary by M. de Voltaire. A New Edition Corrected.
Written by Cesare Beccaria. Printed in Edinburgh by James Donaldson, 1788.
Chap. VIII.
Of the Division of Crimes.
We have proved, then, that crimes are to be estimated by the injury done to society. This is one [...]