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Infamy according to the meaning usually attached
to it, means rather the criminal than the crime.
If the infamy was understood of the crime itself,
its effect would be more certain, more durab
lasting and more efficacious. It might then be
made to bear a proportion to the nature of the crime
But how is this object to be attained? For each
species of offence an equivalent species of infamy
discredit must be devised.

To ex This would however require the
contrivance of and use of a set of Instruments
altogether new in criminal judicature. inscriptions,
and Emblems, drafts, tables for each offence,
in accord of objects which strike the eye, which
impress in the imagination through the senses
& which form indestructible associations between
the crime offence and and the infamy. It is thus
that the public indignation for the crime may
be concentrated upon the criminal and upon
the crime, an indignation which is not to
be directed against the laws and against the Judges.
Let us not disdain to borrow from the stage
the most effectual contrivances for producing
effect. The making the emblems of the crime perpetually
accompany the criminal is not a vain
display of power, nor a ridiculous parody: it
would form an instructive representation, declaring
the moral object in punishment, and rendering
the Judge an object of veneration, by proving
showing him, which under the painful necessity
of punishing, more attention to the fa
a useful , than in the gratifying
individual vengeance revenge.

The Pillory is in England, of all punishments
the most unequal, and the worst arranged.
The criminal is abandoned to the caprice of
the mob. How are we to define this strange exa
exhibition? Sometimes it ends in triumph
sometimes in death. A literary man was some
year ago condemned to be pilloried for what

Identifier: | JB/047/114/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1806-08-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	12-14
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	114	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	14982
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