JB/159/115/003

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Measure of Punishment.

above being upon a level with the profit of the
offence. The scale that lies Between the two is the Legislator's field
for action. His business is to make as many
divisions upon it as possible for the sake of
favouring all along such as are less mischievous offences at the expence
if one may so say, of those that are as one more so more mischievous.

This is all the accuracy that can be attained
with respect to fixing the boundaries for punishment
in general. Unhappily the boundaries
are much more clearly fixed on the minus than
on the plus side. We can tell with certainty
in all cases how much punishment can is not enough,
and is therefore worse than none: what is
enough is more than we can say. With regard
to particular cases with regard to the punishment
for particular offences, we are better may to obtain I
hope in many instances obtain better satisfaction.
The circumstances and conditions [a man must be
in] and conditions with respect to in order to
have opportunity to committ the offence in
question will often come in as a consideration
that serves to will serve to set bounds to the quantity of
punishment on the plus side. These circumstances
are such as afford a presumption
of his possessing more than ordinary sensibility share of
to

Identifier: | JB/159/115/003"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	115	Info in main headings field	measure of punishment
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53938
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