Table of Contents
Introduction to the Treatise vii
A Note on the Text lvii
Biographical Note lxvii
Title Page 1
To the Reader 3
Introduction 7
§ I The Origin of Punishments 9
§ II The Right to Punish 11
§ III Implications So Far 13
§ IV The Interpretation of Laws 15
§ V The Obscurity of the Laws 17
§ VI The Proportion between Crime and Punishment 19
§ VII Errors in the Measurement of Crime 23
§ VIII The Classification of Crimes 25
§ IX Honor 27
§ X Duels 29
§ XI Disturbing the Peace 31
§ XII The Purpose of Punishment 33
§ XIII On Witnesses 35
§ XIV Evidence and Forms of Judgment 37
§ XV Secret Accusations 39
§ XVI Torture 41
§ XVII Revenue Authorities 47
§ XVIII Oaths 49
§ XIX Prompt Punishment 51
§ XX Violent Crimes 53
§ XXI Punishing Nobles 55
§ XXII Theft 57
§ XXIII Public Condemnation 59
§ XXIV Political Indolence 61
§ XXV Banishment and Confiscation 63
§ XXVI On the Spirit of the Family 65
§ XXVII The Mildness of Punishments 69
§ XXVIII The Punishment of Death 71
§ XXIX Preventive Detention 77
§ XXX Criminal Proceedings and the Statute of Limitations 81
§ XXXI Crimes Difficult to Prove 83
§ XXXII Suicide 87
§ XXXIII Smuggling 91
§ XXXIV Debtors 93
§ XXXV Sanctuaries 95
§ XXXVI Bounties 97
§ XXXVII Attempts, Accomplices, Pardons 99
§ XXXVIII Suggestive Interrogations, Depositions 101
§ XXXIX On a Particular Kind of Crime 103
§ XL False Ideas of Utility 105
§ XLI How to Prevent Crimes 107
§ XLII On theSciences 109
§ XLIII Judges 113
§ XLIV Rewards 115
§ XLV Education 117
§ XLVI On Pardons 119
§ XLVII Conclusion 121
Endnotes 123
References 149
