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much inferior will be produced hereafter to this supposed
one, will be produced hereafter.

If from one third the Fine were to be increased
to two thirds, the Law instead of being better
would now be just as bad again as it was before—
it is still as true as ever, that after the punishment
suffer'dand over, it is always worth a Man's while
to commit the Crime whenever he has the Opportunity:
and the Misery of the Criminal is doubled.

Universally therefore the Inexpediency of the
Law is inversely as the Magnitude of the Punishment,
up to the very Point at which that punishment
has risen to an Equality with the Profit of
the Crime."

7. Where the Act prohibited is such as would produce
Unhappiness in the Community, and less
than the Penalty actually annexed to it—; but not
less than one might be substituted in it's
Room.

Such I conceive to be the Laws inflicting capital
Punishments on Thefts.

Here the Law simply & absolutely considered

Identifier: | JB/096/100/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	legislation
Folio number	100	Info in main headings field	introd. a law - 8 cases in respect of its expediency
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f10 / / /
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31104
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