Author:
Heath, James.
Imprint:[London] : Oxford University Press, 1963.
Description288 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Includes some primary source material.
Note:PART I: GENERAL INTRODUCTION: Ethics and punishment -- Grounds of liability -- Police -- Trial -- The choice of punishments -- PART II. SOURCES: excerpts from the following: Montesquieu -- Hutcheson's 'System' -- Fielding's 'Enquiry' -- The Encyclopedia -- Rousseau on 'The Social Contract' -- Beccaria on 'Crimes and Punishments' -- Voltaire -- Hautefort's 'Observations' -- Risi's 'Observations' -- Servan on the 'Administration of Criminal Justice' -- Blackstone's 'Commentaries' -- Eden's 'Principles' -- Howard -- Bentham -- Brissot's 'Theory of the Criminal Laws' -- Filangieri's 'Science of Legislation' -- Paley's 'Principles' -- Romilly's 'Observations' -- Kant's 'Science of Right' -- Colquhoun's 'Police of the Metropolis'.
