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Imprisonment General Scheme &c.

the prisoner was concerned in unlawfully depriving him
of them.

In adjusting the regiment of the Black there is one circumstance
rather embarrassing: This is the difficulty of determining
what to do about the inflicting or not inflicting
the punishment of seclusion from the
society of the other sex. On the one hand this article
of is the case has nothing in it of exemplarity;
in the prospect of the large and complex
mass of punishment comprised under the denomination
in question it would be lost and have little
or no effect upon any one who should consider it.
The sufferings it would occasion are secret nor are
they evidenced by any external marks. It would could To the business
not answer any purpose of General Prevention General Prevention example, then it would
be ineffectual. To that of Reformation particular prevention it would
be unnecessary: that being effectually provided for by
the perpetrator of the punishment Imprisonment. It would therefore be
so much misery in waste.

How then to prevent it? since the conjugal tie by
dissolved, and to allow
which any of the delinquents might may
have been held during their continuance in society
are dissolved. It is a great chance whether the proportion
between the numbers of the two sexes would be such
as to admitt give room for all such to be accommodate
themselves with a new marriage as might choose
it, or rather it is certain that it would not. The member of marriageable men could greatly exceed that of the marriageable women. and to allow a promiscuous association intercourse between
the two sexes would be productive of perpetual strife and
tumult.


Identifier: | JB/159/209/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

159

Main Headings

punishment

Folio number

209

Info in main headings field

general scheme

Image

001

Titles

continence

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f7 / f8

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

l v g

Marginals

Paper Producer

caroline vernon

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

54032

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