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" The end of punishment, therefore, is no other than to prevent the criminal from doing further injury to society, and to prevent others from committing the like offence. "
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments - Page 47
by Cesare marchese di Beccaria - 1819 - 239 pages
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Anthologia Hibernica: Or, Monthly Collections of Science, Belles ..., Volume 4

1794 - 540 pages
...the groans of a tortured wretch recaí the time pan, or reverie his crime ? The end of punilhment, therefore, is no other, than to prevent the criminal from doing further injury to fociety, and to deter oihers from committing the like offence f. Now there is no man, who, upon the...
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The Criminal Recorder: Or, Biographical Sketches of Notorious ..., Volume 3

Crime - 1804 - 474 pages
...passion, should be the cool moderator of the passions of individuals ? CUD the groans of a torture:! wretch recal the time past or reverse the crime he...further injury to society, and to prevent others from commit ting the like offence. Such punishments, therefore, and such a mode of inflicting them, ought...
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Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

Decoration and ornament - 1819 - 490 pages
...punishments. Crimes are only to be estimated by the injury done to society ; and the end of punishment is, to prevent the criminal from doing further injury...to prevent others from committing the like offence. Admitting, for the sake of argument, that suicide is a crime, my intention is to apply it to the four...
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A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional ..., Volume 6

Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 768 pages
...Punishment cannot reverse the crime committed ; " and the end of it is only to prevent the criminal doing further injury to society, and to prevent others from committing the like offences." § 13. Every rational being, whose ideas have some connexion with each other, and whose...
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The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the ..., Volume 2

John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 258 pages
...should be the cool moderator of the passions of individuals ? Can the groans of a tortured wretch recall the time past, or reverse the crime he has committed...is no other than to prevent the criminal from doing farther injury to society, and to prevent others from committing the like offence. Such punishments,...
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Report on Capital Punishment: Made to the Maine Legislature in 1836

Maine. Legislature. Joint Select Committee on Capital Punishment, Tobias Purrington - Capital punishment - 1852 - 54 pages
...the restraint loses both the name and nature of punishment. "The end of punishment," says Beccaria. " is no other than to prevent the criminal from doing...prevent others from committing the like offence." "The end of all correction," says Seneca, << is either the amendment of wicked men, or to prevent the...
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Legislative Report on the Subject of Capital Punishment: Made in the House ...

Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives - Capital punishment - 1853 - 102 pages
...to the ends—the objects to be attained by punishment. "The end of punishment says Весе aria, is no other than to prevent the criminal from doing...prevent others from committing the like offence." The end of correction says Seneca, "is either the amendment of wicked men, or to prevent the influence...
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Vacation Thoughts on Capital Punishments

Charles Phillips - Capital punishment - 1857 - 136 pages
...is a speaking commentary on our legislation. " The end of punishment (says the Marquess Beccaria,) is no other than to prevent the criminal from doing...further injury to society, and to prevent others from the like offence." We apprehend that every jurist, and publicist, and casuist living, will admit this...
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The Law Magazine and Review: For Both Branches of the Legal Profession at ...

Law - 1879 - 726 pages
...from the minds of the criminal classes. The sole object of punishment should be to deter the culprit from doing further injury to society, and to prevent others from committing the like offence. Punishment ought to be inflicted with a view to making the strongest and most lasting impression on...
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Annual Report of the American Bar Association: Including ..., Volume 15

American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1892 - 500 pages
...an indispensable sacrifice to the common safety." And .tJeccana states the end ot punishment to be " no other than to prevent the criminal from doing further...society, and to prevent others from committing the like offense." The proposed legislation seems to be based upon a false premise. It presupposes that the...
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