📚 Punishment

Why and how far to punish: from the gallows spectacle to the retributive-justice shelf that argued back.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject punishment in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Dei delitte e delle pene	Cesare Beccaria	1764	164
	Brûlée vive	Souad	2003	29
	Código penal (1938)	Ecuador	1938	15
	Curious Punishments of Bygone Days	Alice Morse Earle	1968	15
	Sentencing and Criminal Justice	Andrew Ashworth	2005	15
	Criminology	Edwin Hardin Sutherland	1934	14
	Books Fatal to Their Authors	P. H. Ditchfield	1895	12
	Model penal code	American Law Institute.	1953	12
	Curious punishments of bygone days	Alice Morse Earle	1896	11
	Resist not evil	Clarence Darrow	1902	11
	Punishment and responsibility	H. L. A. Hart	1968	10
	Old-time punishments	Andrews, William	1890	9
	Crime and punishment in England	John Briggs	1996	9
	Crime and Punishment in Ancient Rome	Richard A. Bauman	1996	9
	Bygone punishments	Andrews, William	1898	7
	Dei delitti e delle pene	Cesare Beccaria	1774	6
	Punishment and modern society	David Garland	1990	6
	Punishment	Thom Brooks	2012	6
	Morality of Punishment	Alfred C. Ewing	2013	6
	Punishment	Ted Honderich	1976	5
	Punishment and terrorism in Africa	H. Odera Oruka	1976	5
	Corporal punishment	Herbert Arnold Falk	1941	4
	A view of the hard-labour bill	Jeremy Bentham	1778	3
	The limits of the criminal sanction	Herbert L. Packer	1968	3
	Coercion and its fallout	Murray Sidman	1989	3
	Pokok-pokok hukum penitensier di Indonesia	Mompang L. Panggabean	2005	3
	Logical Consequences	Rudolf Dreikurs	1968	2
	Sentencing in a rational society	Nigel Walker	1969	2
	Guilty!	Jim Hatfield	1994	2
	Pidana penjara	Petrus Irwan Panjaitan	2007	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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