JB/071/049/004

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Of Theft

the mischief of the offence. The natural effect of
the calamity is to increase a man's sensibility
to impropries of the afflicting kind: and that
in a double point of view: by the terror and shock which it
terror of it has given to his mind and as well as by that which
the distruction it has occasioned given to his
fortune. It It galls those who are already
sore ? Besides this it grates in another way
by deterring it tends to augment
the spread of the calamity.

2. Because stealing under such circumstances
is a mark of particular depravity in a man's
disposition. The secondary mischief of the offence
the alarm to the neighbourhood is augmented
by this means. Men are alarmed at the thought
of their being exposed to the outrage of a malefactor
whose of disposition is as to is such as indicates
him ready to commit the worst of crimes

3. In a moral view. An extraordinary punishment
in such a case may serve as a of
humanity + See Tit [Homicide] and [Cruelties to animals]

4. In the view of giving satisfcation to the people.
The resentment indignation of the people at the offender being
wound up to a high pitch by the consideration
of the humanity of the offence, a severe and exemplary
punishment seems likely to meet with their approbation.

Identifier: | JB/071/049/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	049	Info in main headings field	of theft reasons
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f25 / f26 / f27 / f28
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23452
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