Observations on Penal Jurisprudence: And the Reformation of CriminalsT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1819 - 323 من الصفحات |
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... modes of torture to keep the other in awe : the punish- ment of death was applied almost indiscrimi- nately , and with every yariety of form , to al- most every species of crime . Torture , in dif- ferent ways , was very generally ...
... modes of torture to keep the other in awe : the punish- ment of death was applied almost indiscrimi- nately , and with every yariety of form , to al- most every species of crime . Torture , in dif- ferent ways , was very generally ...
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... modes for effecting such reformation , the extent of which must always be propor- tioned to the necessity of the case . It requires but a very slight acquaintance either with the principles of human nature , or the 10 ON THE MOTIVES AND ...
... modes for effecting such reformation , the extent of which must always be propor- tioned to the necessity of the case . It requires but a very slight acquaintance either with the principles of human nature , or the 10 ON THE MOTIVES AND ...
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... modes of destroying his people ; whilst the judges and peers of the land , became the ready instruments of his most cruel measures . The number of executions in his reign is stated to have been seventy - two thousand persons , being ...
... modes of destroying his people ; whilst the judges and peers of the land , became the ready instruments of his most cruel measures . The number of executions in his reign is stated to have been seventy - two thousand persons , being ...
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... mode of preventing crimes . Yet , if we compare the efforts that have been made for this purpose , with the immense task that yet remains unac- complished , we cannot flatter ourselves with having made any extraordinary progress . We ...
... mode of preventing crimes . Yet , if we compare the efforts that have been made for this purpose , with the immense task that yet remains unac- complished , we cannot flatter ourselves with having made any extraordinary progress . We ...
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... modes suggested or approved by them , is the extension of moral and religious education to indigent youth ; the establishment of Houses of Industry and Pe- nitentiaries for the reformation of criminals , and of places of refuge for ...
... modes suggested or approved by them , is the extension of moral and religious education to indigent youth ; the establishment of Houses of Industry and Pe- nitentiaries for the reformation of criminals , and of places of refuge for ...
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الصفحة 136 - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
الصفحة 57 - Ev'n those who dwell beneath its very zone, Or never feel the rage, or never own ; What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. Virtuous and vicious ev'ry man must be, Few in th...
الصفحة 121 - Religion encourages the assurance, that, if we " train up a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not depart from it.
الصفحة 77 - The subject here presented is one of the most important that can engage the attention of the profession. The volume should be generally read, as the subject-matter is of great importance to society.
الصفحة 42 - It is a kind of quackery in government, and argues a want of solid skill, to apply the same universal remedy, the ultimum supplicium, to every case of difficulty. It is, it must be owned, much easier to extirpate than to amend mankind; yet that magistrate must be esteemed both a weak and a cruel surgeon, who cuts off every limb, which, through ignorance or indolence, he will not attempt to cure.
الصفحة 16 - As several of them thug discharged were old offenders, there was some reason to fear that they would not long behave as honest citizens. But if they have returned to their old courses, they have chosen to run the risk of being hanged in other states, rather than encounter the certainty of being confined in the penitentiary cells of this. We may therefore conclude, that the plan adopted has had a good effect on these; for it is a fact well known, that many of them were heretofore frequently at the...
الصفحة 122 - For this cause also thank we GOD without ceasing, because when ye received the Word of GOD, which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of man, but as it is in truth, the Word of GOD, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
الصفحة 116 - States do not transport convicts; but men are put to labor in the rasp-houses, and women to proper work in the spin-houses — upon this professed maxim, 'MAKE THEM DILIGENT AND THEY WILL BE HONEST.' Great care is taken to give them moral and religious instruction, and reform their manners, for their own and the public good ; and I am well informed that many come out sober and honest.
الصفحة 41 - It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.
الصفحة 102 - CHARLES, par la grâce de Dieu, roi de France et de Navarre, A tous ceux qui ces présentes verront, salut.