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- Title
PENOLOGICAL REFORM AND THE MYTH OF BECCARIA.
- Authors
Newman, Graeme; Marongiu, Pietro
- Abstract
Beccaria is widely acknowledged as one of penology's great reformers. This paper analyzes aspects of Beccaria's life and works and concludes that the adoration afforded Beccaria by penologists far outweighs the actual contributions he made to penology. Many of the reforms that occurred during the eighteenth century can as easily be ascribed to social and political conditions as to Beccaria's work. When compared with the works of other great reformers of the eighteenth century, such as Voltaire or Bentham. Beccaria's works are less profound. The myth of Beccaria nonetheless presides over the modern paradigm of liberal penology.
- Subjects
PUNISHMENT; CRIMINAL justice system; CORRECTIONS (Criminal justice administration); LIBERALISM; REFORMERS; CORRECTIONAL psychology
- Publication
Criminology, 1990, Vol 28, Issue 2, p325
- ISSN
0011-1384
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1745-9125.1990.tb01328.x