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Police Report VI 1*

VI Expence of punishment

An may be observation frequently met with in
speculative writers on penal law is that

Judging of this recommendation from practice, if
the practice of the British Government up to an the present period were to be the
in this country only standard, nothing could be more visionary.

It assumes that from the labour of a person sentenced
to labour or to a punishment, a real profit may
always be extracted over and above the expence
of maintenance. In 17 At the commencement opening of the
system of hard labour on board the Hulks
a male Convict was worth £38 a year less than
nothing. Mr Bentham (of whom Your
Committee will have occasion to make more
particular mention presently) at the time of when he came
to make
his first proposal found this negative value
reduced to £27: soon after and as it
seems reasonable enough to suppose may not unreasonably be supposed in consequence
of such his proposal it was reduced
to £ . By his proposal when
carried into effect it will be was to have been reduced to an
apparent £12, or rather (as will appear
which the his terms come to be examined into
to much less than £12.

But under even ordinary management
if this notion of a positive negative value as belonging
to a property is forced to bear as in this
country and under the management of government
become a visionary one, it is the practice of Government
of this country, not the opinion of the speculative writers
above alluded to that is in fault. The result of the practice
of government in this country is itself but a minute exception
to an immense general rule.


Identifier: | JB/117/058/002
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117

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panopticon

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058

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002

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1

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recto

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Penner

jeremy bentham

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38675

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