RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT

IMRAD FORMAT
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SUBJECT: INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY

COURSE DESCRIPTION: CRIM 1
TIME: 10:00am -11:00am
INSTRUCTOR: Jerrylyn Benitez Fermin. Rcrim.

TOPIC: CESARE BECCARIA: The content of his book “On Crimes and Punishment”

I. Introduction:
For the most part, men leave the care of the most important regulations either to
common sense or to the discretion of individuals whose interests are opposed to those most
foresighted laws which distribute benefits to all and resists the pressures to concentrate those
benefits in the hands of a few, raising those few to the heights of power and happiness, and
sinking everyone else in feebleness and poverty. It is, therefore, only after they have experienced
thousands of miscarriages in matters essential to life and liberty, and have grown weary of
suffering the most extreme ills, that men set themselves to right the evils that beset them and to
grasp the most palpable truths which, by virtue of their simplicity, escape the minds of the
common run for men who are not used to analysing things, but instead passively take on a whole
set of school-hand impressions of them derived more from tradition than from enquiry.

II. Methods:
In this study, the researcher used the internet to gathering data regarding for this
study. The researcher used internet because for the useful tools for the research and to make it
easier to find the gathering information of the study.
III. Results
Cesare Beccaria is most known for his essay, on Crimes and Punishment. According to
Cesare Beccaria, good punishment was one which was clear, swift, and appropriate. He greatly
opposed torture and capital punishment, arguing they were inhuman and ineffective practices.
Punishment should deter people from committing crime and create pain. The system would look
very different without his influence.

IV. Discussion
The impact of Beccaria’s on Crimes and Punishments on English discussions of
punishment in the twenty-five years following its publication is assessed, with attention being
paid to beccaria’s combination of contractarian and early utilitarian.

Reference:
Cesare Beccaria, (2019). What would men be like without criminal law
Hhtps://www.theforage.com/blog/careers/what –is – criminal- law
Wikipedia Criminal law
https:// en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Cesare _Beccaria