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Of the [purposes] of Procedure Ends
-ally gone begun and going on, delay increases
the quantity of the mischief. If the an offence of
the sort in question has been actually committed
and the business is merely all that is to be done is
to by dint of punishment to prevent the commission
When the offence is over - 1. it weakens the preventive efficiency 1. by producing 1. Danger of impunity
of other offences of the like nature in future, the
inconveniences of delay are much more various.
In the first place it adds to the dangers of impunity. For the longer time there is after the interval in between
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the act of delinquency and the time and before
the punishment is inflicted, the greater time
there is for death and other accidental causes
of releasement to take place. In the place
it tends to weaken the preventive effect of the punishment:
although it actually takes place at last, yet the
delay if considerable may to contribute
in a certain degree by weakening the apparent
connection between the mischievous
act considered as a cause, and the punishment
considered as an effect to weakening
the efficacy of the latter in preventing other
offences of the like kind.</p>
<head>NOTE.
(6) It has been said, that delay has the further
From p. 13. No 1.
It does not weaken
the preventive efficacy
in the way of
example.
effect of tending in a certain degree to weaken the preventive efficacy
effect of weakening
of p the punishment, even upon the supposition that at last even supposing the punishment
does actually take place. For it may weaken (it is said) the apparent
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jeremy bentham |
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c. hamilton |
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