Of Crime And Punishment By Cesare Beccaria's Of Crime And Punishment?

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Societies around the world have a different definition of the prober way to punish a criminal; some are extremely cruel in their punishment, while others are a bit more lenient. Past societies, and even some to this day have an image of characteristics that a criminal possesses. In the article “Of Crime and Punishment” by Cesare Beccaria, Beccaria speaks of some of the negligent form of punishment that many societies around the globe practice, while also speaking of the proper form of punishment that should be implemented instead. In the other hand in the article of Gina Lombroso-Ferrero “Criminal Man”, Ferrero speaks of characteristics that are more apparent in criminals. Both articles share almost no similarities do to the fact …show more content…
Beccaria also argues that punishment such as torture are not effect because those with weaker “feeble” body will be more likely to confess to a crime even if they did not committee it (Beccaria, 1819). Beccaria also makes a argument against the death sentence, one of the reason that are given in the article is that if a man does not have the right to kill himself, than why should the state, another argument that is made is that the death sentence does not prevent crimes, but instead it just makes people more barbaric (Beccaria, 1819). The main point of Beccaria article is that as societies become more modern and civil punishment must also evolve, and become more civil, but at the same time punishment must be dealt to those who brake the law in order to keep society civil, and to deter others from breaking the law (Beccaria, …show more content…
Some of the examples that Ferrero give are that criminals tend to have a larger or smaller head than the average size in their country of origin (Ferrero, 1911). Another argument made in the article is that some races/ ethnicities are more likely to committee specific criminal acts, and some of the examples given are gipsies, and Jewish people (Ferrero, 1911). Ferrero argues that gipsies tend to be all criminals or in the author’s own words “In the gipsies we have an entire race of criminals” (Ferrero, 1911). The main point that Ferrero was making in the article is that certain race, and certain body characteristic are able to show if a person will or is a criminal. Both the article “Of Crime and Punishment” by Cesare Beccaria, and the article “Criminal Man” by Gina Lombroso-Ferrero are completely different works with one exception, that being that both articles are focusing on characteristics of particular

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