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C
Of the [purposes] of Procedure
Ends
-ally gone begun and going on, delay increases
the quantity of the mischief. If the an offence of
the sort in question has been actually committed
and the business if merely all that is to be done is
to by dint of punishment to prevent the commission
When the offence
is over - 1. it
weakens the pre-
ventive efficiency
1. by producing
1. Danger of
impunity
of other offences of the like nature in future, the
inconveniences of delay are much more various.
In the first place it adds to the dangers of im-
-punity. For the longer time there is after the interval in between
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the act of delinquency and the time and before
the punishment is inflicted, the greater time
there is for death and other accidental causes
of releasement to take place. In the place
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it tends to weaken the preventive effect of the punishment:
although it actually takes place at last, yet the
delay if considerable may to contri-
-bute in a certain degree by weakening the ap-
-parent connection between the mischievous
act considered as a cause, and the punish-
-ment considered as an effect to weakening
the efficacy of the latter in preventing
offences of the like kind.
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NOTE.
6) It has been said, that delay has the further
From p. 13. No 1.
It does not weaken
the preventive effica-
cy in the way of
example.
effect of tending in a certain degree to weaken the preventive efficacy
effect of weakening
of p the punishment, even upon the supposition that at last even supposing the punish-
-ment
does actually take place. For it may weaken (it is said) the ap-
-parent

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	10, 1-2, 15
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	314	Info in main headings field	[[info_in_main_headings_field::of the [purposes] of procedure]]
Image	003	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	16479
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