JB/159/148/004

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Simple afflictive Punishments examined

As to variability, the modes of punishment in question
are capable of being made to possess that property in
great perfection; that is as far as the organical
pain only is concerned. Where the application
by which the pain is produced is of the com discrete kind, consisting of a number
of strokes as in whipping and beating, it is variable
in point of number; to wit by the number of strokes: it is also variable
by the force given to each stroke, and by the part by the sharpness
stricken weight and hardness of the instrument, and
by the part stricken. Where it is continuous as in
Drenching, Pickeering and the Wooden Horse, the
effect of it is variable in part by the circumstance of duration time: it is also variable
by weights added to that of the body. Sharpness Now [degrees of]
and hardness may be divided out, number, force, weight, and
time may be not only divided out, but measured and denominated
to any degree of exactness. The sensibility
of the sufferer being ascertained as far as it can
be ascertained by inspection, the effect of the application
may therefore be determined to a great
degree of exactness previous to experiment.

I say it may be: not that it has been under any
administration of penal justice that I know of. Whipping
is of the species of afflictive punishment the most
in use. But in whipping not even the qualities
of the instrument are ascertained by written Law: and the
force quantity

Identifier: | JB/159/148/004 "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	148	Info in main headings field	simple afflictive punishments
Image	004	Titles	frugality / certainty / equability
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1/ f2 / f3 / f4
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	53971
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