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Of Preventive institutions

Prefat

They will see nothing but the plain &
obvious result of the disquisitions observations laid down
in at the outset respecting the motives [of actions]
& [their ] consequences. The business is to attack
the evil in it's source: that is in it's cause.
Now the causes of crimes as of all other actions,
are motives:

Of the expedients of which belong to the head of preven indirect
legislation let us take a
A view general in deed, but if possible exhaustive
and compleat - For this purpose we must have recourse
to the old division so often called calle to mind, of
the circumstances that must concur in the production of a human act:
viz: knowledge, power, & inclination

Legislation consider'd with regard to the means method
taken pursued employ'd for the attainment of the end may be distinguished
into direct or ordinary, and indirect
or transcendent.

Indirect legislation may assist Direct, but can not supersede
it. The one and the other must go hand
in hand. The incidents events which call for the infliction
of punishment may be more rare: but punishment
must always be held up.

Identifier: | JB/087/011/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	011	Info in main headings field	of preventive institutions
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27536
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