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C 27

Of Co-offenders

Question I.

Why offenders are all punished all substantially
upon nearly the same footing.

Reasons

Why the a prime mover is directed to be punished
[] more severely than any other co-offender,
even than the a perpetrator.

Reasons

1. Because his disposition is the worst.
1. Because it argues a worse disposition to be the
first to propose a crime, than to come into it when
proposed by others. In the latter case the offence
seems to receive some sort of countenance from the
moral sanction, in as much as one person at least of
those whose sentiments go towards making up the force of
that sanction, that is one person within the circle
of the offender's acquaintance, instance instead of disapproving,
appears (by the supposition) to approve of
it. Such is the effect of what is called the force of
example:

2. Because punishment thus applied affords the best chance of prevention
2. Because a punishment of a given magnitude
affords a better chance of preventing the obnoxious event
when levelled at the prime mover, than when levelled
at any subsequent offender. Although the punishment
should so far answer it's purpose as to deter
every all persons person from lending their hands to the who

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	50
Box	098	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	028	Info in main headings field	of co-offenders
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f27 / f28 / f29 / f30
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] propatria [britannia with shield emblem]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	31636
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