Essay on Crimes and Punishments

Episodes

• Introduction

  Episode 1 · 6:06
• Preface by the Translator of M.D. Voltaire's Commentary

  Episode 2 · 4:14
• Chapter I - On the Origin of Punishments

  Episode 3 · 2:53
• Chapter II - On the Right to Punish

  Episode 4 · 4:18
• Chapter III - Consequences of the foregoing principles

  Episode 5 · 3:49
• Chapter IV - Of the Interpretation of Laws

  Episode 6 · 7:42
• Chapter V - Of the Obscurity of Laws

  Episode 7 · 4:10
• Chapter VI - Of the Proportion between Crimes and Punishments

  Episode 8 · 7:37
• Chapter VII - Of Estimating the Degree of Crimes

  Episode 9 · 4:01
• Chapter VIII - Of the Division of Crimes

  Episode 10 · 6:39
• Chapter IX - Of Honour

  Episode 11 · 6:32
• Chapter X - Of Duelling

  Episode 12 · 2:41
• Chapter XI - Of Crimes which Disturb Public Tranquillity

  Episode 13 · 4:38
• Chapter XII - Of the Intent of Punishments

  Episode 14 · 1:51
• Chapter XIII - Of the Credibility of Witnesses

  Episode 15 · 7:06
• Chapter XIV - Of Evidence and the Proofs of a Crime, and of the Form of Judgment

  Episode 16 · 7:07
• Chapter XV - Of Secret Accusation

  Episode 17 · 6:02
• Chapter XVI - Of Torture

  Episode 18 · 18:20
• Chapter XVII - Of Pecuniary Punishments

  Episode 19 · 5:17
• Chapter XVIII - Of Oaths

  Episode 20 · 3:06
• Chapter XIX - Of the Advantage of Immediate Punishment

  Episode 21 · 7:03
• Chapter XX - Of Acts of Violence

  Episode 22 · 2:25
• Chapter XXI - Of the Punishment of the Nobles

  Episode 23 · 4:46
• Chapter XXII - Of Robbery

  Episode 24 · 3:09
• Chapter XXIII - Of Infamy considered as a Punishment

  Episode 25 · 4:27
• Chapter XXIV - Of Idleness

  Episode 26 · 2:15
• Chapter XXV - Of Banishment and Confiscation

  Episode 27 · 4:46
• Chapter XXVI - Of the Spirit of Family in States

  Episode 28 · 9:22
• Chapter XXVII - Of the Mildness of Punishments

  Episode 29 · 6:39
• Chapter XXVIII - Of the Punishment of Death

  Episode 30 · 22:02
• Chapter XXIX - Of Imprisonment

  Episode 31 · 4:56
• Chapter XXX - Of Prosecution and Prescription

  Episode 32 · 6:51
• Chapter XXXI - Of Crimes of Difficult Proof

  Episode 33 · 10:53
• Chapter XXXII - Of Suicide

  Episode 34 · 9:49
• Chapter XXXIII - Of Smuggling

  Episode 35 · 4:31
• Chapter XXXIV - Of Bankrupts

  Episode 36 · 7:53
• Chapter XXXV - Of Sanctuaries

  Episode 37 · 4:34
• Chapter XXXVI - Of Rewards for Apprehending or Killing Criminals

  Episode 38 · 3:26
• Chapter XXXVII - Of Attempts, Acomplices and Pardon

  Episode 39 · 5:52
• Chapter XXXVIII - Of Suggestive Interrogations

  Episode 40 · 3:19
• Chapter XXXIX - Of a Peculiar Kind of Crimes

  Episode 41 · 3:19
• Chapter XL - Of False Ideas of Utility

  Episode 42 · 5:11
• Chapter XLI - Of the Means of Preventing Crimes

  Episode 43 · 5:03
• Chapter XLII - Of the Sciences

  Episode 44 · 8:22
• Chapter XLIII - Of Magistrates

  Episode 45 · 1:24
• Chapter XLIV - Of Rewards

  Episode 46 · 1:13
• Chapter XLV - Of Education

  Episode 47 · 1:56
• Chapter XLVI - Of Pardons

  Episode 48 · 4:19
• Chapter XLVII - Conclusion

  Episode 49 · 1:45
• Commentary - Chapter I - The Circumstances that Occasioned this Commentary

  Episode 50 · 5:26
• Commentary - Chapter II - Of Punishments

  Episode 51 · 2:30
• Commentary - Chapter III - Of the Punishment of Heretics

  Episode 52 · 8:24
• Commentary - Chapter IV - Of the Extirpation of Heresies

  Episode 53 · 6:47
• Commentary - Chapter V - Of Blasphemy and Profanation

  Episode 54 · 10:25
• Commentary - Chapter VI - Of the Indulgence of the Romans in Matters of Religion

  Episode 55 · 6:01
• Commentary - Chapter VII - Of the Crime of Unlawful Preaching - Story of Anthony

  Episode 56 · 7:10
• Commentary - Chapter VIII - The Story of Simon Morin

  Episode 57 · 5:27
• Commentary - Chapter IX - Of Witches

  Episode 58 · 5:20
• Commentary - Chapter X - Of Capital Punishment

  Episode 59 · 6:29
• Commentary - Chapter XI - Of the Execution of Sentences

  Episode 60 · 4:04
• Commentary - Chapter XII - Of Torture

  Episode 61 · 4:05
• Commentary - Chapter XIII - Of Certain Sanguinary Tribunals

  Episode 62 · 4:22
• Commentary - Chapter XIV - Of the Difference Between Political and Natural Laws

  Episode 63 · 5:10
• Commentary - Chapter XV - Of the Crime of High Treason - Of Titus Oates and of the Death of Augustine de Thou

  Episode 64 · 10:19
• Commentary - Chapter XVI - Of the Revealing of Crimes (Before Commission) by Religious Confession

  Episode 65 · 8:19
• Commentary - Chapter XVII - Of Counterfeiting Money

  Episode 66 · 1:58
• Commentary - Chapter XVIII - Of Domestic Theft

  Episode 67 · 2:20
• Commentary - Chapter XIX - Of Suicide

  Episode 68 · 5:27
• Commentary - Chapter XX - Of a Certain Species of Mutilation

  Episode 69 · 2:15
• Commentary - Chapter XXI - Of the Confiscation Consequent upon all the Crimes which Have Been Mentioned

  Episode 70 · 8:26
• Commentary - Chapter XXII - Of Criminal Proceedings, and of Some Other Forms of Procedure

  Episode 71 · 15:26
• Commentary - Chapter XXIII - The Idea of a Reform Suggested

  Episode 72 · 3:54