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23 March 1802
N. S. Wales

the hours of recreation, no inspection whatever: at the
hours of work, none but what is imperfect, occasional
and accidental. Then no preventive check to those
propensities, the strength of which has brought placed the convicts
in question to the sense of punishment: propensities
the indulgence of which betrays itself to the class of crimes
or is introducting to those habits given which are regarded
as the immediate sources of crimes: — sloth, drunkenness,
venereal irregularities, gaming, quarrelsomeness, profanity,, mischievousness,
rapacity.

4. Fourth object constantly or occasionally universally or partially obtainable of
penal justice — Satisfaction or Compensation for the mischief

3. Compensation of the offences individually summary the individual offences. In the Colonization System this
object of course it was altogether out of the question:
it always has been of this in the course of the punishment it in can not no hope ever has been or
ever can be entertained that in that situation the
a map of the mother of wealth should by any t means
be ever be extracted equal in value to that his share
in the expence aggregate of this mode of punishment: much
less that any surplus should be afforded applicable
to the purpose of being transferred made over to the individuals
injured, in the name of a word in compensation, for their an mischief of the
offence part
for the part sustained by him in the aggregate mischief of the offence.
In the other favourite system of the existing prisons — after
all improvements — actual and possible the object of
compensation will be found equally out of reach. unattainable and
out of view.

True it is, that It is only in certain instances, as already intimated,
that this object is in th attainable in the nature of things.
But [+] [+] But under the Panopticon Penitentiary System on a summation it would I believe be found at
procurable in a much greater higher degree is commonly has ever been
yet supposed. conceivd Ultimately I should suppose, and supposing the System
to




Identifier: | JB/116/114/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.

Date_1

1802-03-23

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

116

Main Headings

panopticon versus new south wales

Folio number

114

Info in main headings field

n. s. wales

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e1 / f61

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

37647

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