Cesare Beccaria On Crimes And Punishment Analysis

The most important enlightenment idea is the idea that the degree of punishment should match the seriousness of the crime. It is the most important because it helped influence how we punish people today, it prevented people from giving people they don’t like or minorities worse punishments, and it also prevents the judges or whoever was choosing the punishments from being corrupt and being bribed. Cesare Beccaria wrote an essay called “On Crimes and Punishments” with this idea in it in 1764 when he was only 26 years old. A good example of my first argument would be how nowadays we have set punishments for each crime, for instance when you are caught speeding your punishment is receiving a ticket. This shows that his idea has influenced how …show more content…
Along with the fact that both the accused and the victim should have rights and what they should be. For my first reason you can tell that this was the case because you can see how it affected how they set up their laws and how they were going to punish the guilty, you can especially see some of his ideas and how he influenced them in amendments 5-8. Another reason we know that it was very accepted at the time because even the queen at the time openly endorsed it which is saying something because if even she liked it then the people must have too. Lastly we can tell that it was accepted because he felt comfortable enough that the government or the people were not angry or wouldn't have him thrown in jail or tortured enough that he was ok with openly admitting that he was the one that wrote it and taking ownership of his essay.In conclusion because of the fact that it influenced the founding fathers, Catherine The Great …show more content…
Along with the fact that both the accused and the victim should have rights and what they should be. For my first reason you can tell that this was the case because you can see how it affected how they set up their laws and how they were going to punish the guilty, you can especially see some of his ideas and how he influenced them in amendments 5-8. Another reason we know that it was very accepted at the time because even the queen at the time openly endorsed it which is saying something because if even she liked it then the people must have too. Lastly we can tell that it was accepted because he felt comfortable enough that the government or the people were not angry or wouldn't have him thrown in jail or tortured enough that he was ok with openly admitting that he was the one that wrote it and taking ownership of his essay.In conclusion because of the fact that it influenced the founding fathers, Catherine The Great