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1827. Octr. 17
Law Amendments
Propositions
§ Procedure
Proposed ) Evicting
In better reason can be found for delaying justice
than by this [might ] for denying it altogether
Even to the guilty the
suffering from this delay
is so much evil expended
in pure
But suppose the individual guilty, what then? include of
being a good whatsoever suffering be experienced is so much not as much<lb?>so as if he were innocent, in any every sufferation but that of its contributing
less the quantity of suffering capable of being produced in by
of the same head, or at the h offences by the
So far in regard other persons considered as being under the temptation to offenders
to this effect, whatever
this evil
Note that this will fall
upon the innocent equally
as upon the guilty
But what he is suffered in this secret way not being
has no operation: it is therefore so suffering
expended in waste. Note then the inequality whatever may be the assumed standard of culpability and counter that the
burthen of it is just as likely to fall upon the least guilty as upon
the most guilty. Over and above the in him under
the name of punishment the quantity thus uponthe may be
a day, upon him whose offence is most six monthsall but a day or twelve months.
Contamination by
association an app with the guilty —
evils having their source
in this cause
<hap/> is said not only said but thought
the from being < clear and adequate on the subject of
on the part of the innocent by association with the guilty
in all the various modes of guilt. The evil To By the
of the legislation in this respect anevil in this shape has unquestionably
its cause.
to the number of individuals thus , and
the length of time during which they are confined, is
the quantity of Jail , and the in the shape of
and the expence of in facts and Justice.
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BROCKLESBY & MORBEY 1827 |
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Edmund Henry Barker |
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