JB/159/108/004

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Expence incurred by Punishment.

Is is expedient right the state should put punishment
really in practise? why? You and Most certainly. But why? for the sake of [producing]
the appearance of it. Upon the principle
of utility, (except as to have so much as it necessary for reformation & compensation) for this reason, and for no other whatsoever.⊞ ⊞ To wish to do it for any other reason, would be to abandon the principle of utility, and to resort to that of vengeance. Every particle of real punishment that is produced
more than what is necessary for the production
of the requisite quantity of apparent,
is just so much misery run to waste. Hence
results a very obvious practical lesson; which
is to make the real punishment as great small
and the apparent as great as may be. If it
were possible by hanging a man in effigie to
produce the same salutary impression of terror
upon the minds of the people, it would be folly
or cruelty ever to hang a man in person.

Identifier: | JB/159/108/004 "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	108	Info in main headings field	expence of punishment
Image	004	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / d2 / d3 / d4
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	53931
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