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Cesare Beccaria
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Who Was Cesare Beccaria?
Cesare Beccaria was a criminologist and economist.
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In the early s, Beccaria helped form a society called "the academy of fists," dedicated to economic, political and administrative reform. In , he published his famous and influential criminology essay, "On Crimes and Punishments." In , he started a career in economics, which lasted until his death.
Early Life
Beccaria was born March 15, in Milan, Italy.
His father was an aristocrat born of the Austrian Habsburg Empire, but earned only a modest income.
Beccaria received his primary education at a Jesuit school in Parma, Italy. He would later describe his early education as "fanatical" and oppressive of "the development of human feelings." Despite his frustration at school, Beccaria was an excellent math student.
Following his education at the Jesuit school, Beccaria attended the University of Pavia, where he received a law degree in
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