JB/141/004/001

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B 1. Ch.1.

Establishment

Amendment or reformation and Disablement
are words expressive of the result aimed at in so
far as the conduct in question is that of the
supposed delinquent is concerned. In the
case of amendment or reformation the obnoxious
act is regarded as being of such a nature that by
a single instance of its being committed such
a degree of disorder in the moral constitution
is indicated as requires a general Change to
remove it & bring the patient to a state of
ordinary purity.

Few if any offences of the negative class
being to be found which exhibit any such degree
of malignity, – the use of the terms amendment
and reformation is nearly confined to these case
when the obnoxious act is of the prevention of which
is the ultimate end of the punishment, is of the
positive kind.

Disablement is a term for which with reference
to an act of the negative kind a place is hardly to be
found. Doing nothing is a sort of offence to which
every man is so competent that all endeavours on the
part of Government to disable a man from committing
it may be set at defiance.

Identifier: | JB/141/004/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	004	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f7
Penner	richard smith	Watermarks	dusautoy & rump 1809
Marginals		Paper Producer	edward collins
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	48221
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