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Book 1. Chap. 14.
Of Rewards to accomplices (Pages 6)

Criminals themselves
sometimes become
Informers & are rewarded
by Impunity

This impunity of one is
an evil but a less evil
than the escape of all

Such Impunity ought
not to be held out beforehand.
It would be
an invitation to crimes,
afterwards a reward held out to
the most worthless

Criminals can always
furnish the evidence
of crimes and sometimes
they alone

but English law forbids
the examination of
suspected persons

The occasional office
of Reward not attended
with the foregoing inconvenience.
It disturbs the confidence
of criminals without
allowing any one to
feel safe

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Becaria condemns
these rewards as
producing treason
and faithlessness

Useful conventions
ought to be observed
noxious ones ought not

Society would be
destroyed if crimes
became duties
because once promised

The non performance
of criminal engagement
is not productive of
any evil

The man who repents
is not worthless
because he has repented

The violations of engagements
among criminals
may destroy their
unanimity &c.
But this is what
is desirable

It is however evil to
promise Rewards to
criminals & not to
perform such promises.
It tends to strengthen
their union.

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The other objections of
Becaria are easily
answered

Some good notes
to the edition of
Beccaria by Diderot

Identifier: | JB/143/142/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 143.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	143	Main Headings	rationale of reward
Folio number	142	Info in main headings field	book 1 chap. 14 of rewards to accomplices (pages 6)
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Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections	richard smith	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	48775
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