Beccaria's Three Sections Of The Criminal Justice System

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Beccaria’s theory is split into three different sections, free will; to make choices of their own, rational manner; to look for their own personal pleasure, manipulability; self-interest making actions predictable and controllable. To keep a control of these three sections the criminal justice system was devised and the use of punishment for actions, unfortunately in the 18th century the forms of punishment and the harshness of enforcements were inconsistent, most judges were incorrectly trained and a lot of decisions were incompetently made. The use of torture was used to extract confessions as well as using punishments such as whipping, hanging, stoning and public executions, a lot of the punishments were about getting their own back on the