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1823 Novr. 2
Penal Code

☞ Insert in p.3 or 4. In the Malefactor's Register, under the head of
each, reference to the document viz as the book declaring the history of his crimes.

When the existing stock of punishment was
first laid in, the state of the public mind admitted of
little choice: unapt punishments were for the most part
employed, the most apt not as yet brought to view. Of those
unapt modes the stock, has been already much narrowed
and is in a way to be rendered still more narrow. The pillory
has already been abolished: flogging seems to be in a way to be
abolished. To the utter inaptitude of all mortal punishment
the public mind seems to be every day more and more sensible.
Two modes of punishment remain as yet unemployed which it is
high time should be brought into full view, these are 1 disrepute
as effected & encreased by publicity; this and 2 presence banishment.

First as to disrepute, this is a punishment which is become
already well assorted to the actual state of the public mind.
In England at any rate, not to speak of the other more or less
civilized political communities which are to be found on the
surface of the globe.

In the case of this mode of punishment the power of the
Public Opinion Tribunal is the instrument employed in the infliction
of it. It

This mode of punishment is susceptible of a vast number
of degrees: and it is capable of being adjusted or rather it in
great measure adjusts itself with unexampled accuracy to the
demand for punishment as constituted by the quantity & quality
of the offence.
By

Identifier: | JB/068/287/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 68.
Date_1	1823-11-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	068	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	287	Info in main headings field	penal code
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	22482
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