JB/159/105/003

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End of Punishment

Prevention of more importance than Correction

to wit, in point of extent. The circumstance indeed of
a man's having once offended in a particular way
already, affords a stronger presumption of his offending
in that the same way in future than can subsist
in the case of a person who has never been known
to have offended in that way. The mischief that may be expected
from him is greater in point of probability. Were
it not for this circumstance, the influence of which
it is in a manner impossible to estimate, and of
which at the bottom perhaps the influence is not very
great, one might determine exactly the relative importance
of these the two ends. The importance of General
Prevention would be to that of Particular,
as the number of persons having motives and opportunities
offences of the kind in question is to
1: that is, if the whole number of persons in
the community be po supposed to possess such
motives and opportunities, as that whole number
is to 1.

Identifier: | JB/159/105/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	105	Info in main headings field	end of punishment
Image	003	Titles	notes
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f3 / f4 / f5 / f6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53928
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