On Crimes and Punishment - Cesare Beccaria - (Translated by David Young) - Critical Review

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Cesare Beccarria`s On Crimes and Punishment is a critique on the forthcomings of making opinions based on other people`s examinations rather than self-examinations. n Crimes and Punishment",
Law, according to the author, should be established in a manner that it achieves fairness for most people. Law should protect the best interests of the majority rather than acting as a shield for few exploitative members of the society. Crime is regarded as a deviation from the legal and accepted ways of doing things. Law should be indiscriminately and should be used accordingly regardless on whom it is applied against. Punishment is applied as a form of authoritative imposition of something undesirable against those who break the law as a form of discouraging the acts of doing against the law. The author points how people try to escape the wrath of law by joining civil societies.
Beccaria, just like Rousseau and Hobbes, embraces the assertion that as a society, we are tied as one with unwritten contract existing between the ruled and the rulers. It is only by the law that the ruled becomes the subjects o...