Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria
Cesare Beccaria was an Italian philosopher, economist, and jurist, widely regarded as one of the founding figures of classical criminology and modern criminal law. His seminal work Dei delitti e delle pene (On Crimes and Punishments, 1764) was a groundbreaking critique of arbitrary justice, torture, and the death penalty. Beccaria argued for rational, proportionate, and