ABSTRACT
Cesare Bonesana, Marchese de Beccaria, known as Cesare Beccaria, was born on March 15, 1738, in Milan, Italy. Educated as an economist, tutored in liberal circles, he published a remarkable essay when only 26 years old: the Essay on Crimes and Punishments. Beccaria ought also to be acclaimed as a prophet by those who champion a scientific, research-oriented outlook. Beccaria also ought to be heralded by modern mainstream criminologists. Beccaria ought also to be recognized as the prophet of those modern crime-prevention specialists who posit that criminal justice alone cannot prevent criminality. Beccaria had already recognized criminal-justice-system theory, to make for effective and humane crime prevention, one has to reform and adjust all parts of what is indeed a system of criminal justice, within an overall social system. The only common bond in all the seemingly conflicting desiderata of Beccaria's Essay, as in the schools of thought that owe their property to Beccaria, is humanism.
