Crime And Punishment Or the Question How Should We Treat Our Criminals Practi
Crime And Punishment Or the Question How Should We Treat Our Criminals Practi
Robert Hovenden
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Tear, with its degrading useless tendency, has been tried long enough ; let us try Christian, active, untiring benevolence ; let us endeavour to pro- duce, among ourselves, a state that we have hardly hitherto conceived, namely, that the fear of the bad shall be reduced to the fear to commit the crime, rather than of the conse- quences which flow to them in the shape of punishment, from fallible, uncertain, and fre- quently inoperative human institutions. It will be said, this is Utopian and im...practicable, only 67 a small approach to it is likely to be attained in a very high state of society. If it be supposed, it is contended^ crime will be banished from hu- man communities, the answer is, that will never be done, at least in this imperfect state of our constitution : but crime may be lessened ; its con- sequences to the virtuous may be ameliorated ; the criminal may be restored in many more cases than is now supposed likely ; many may be prevented from falling into guilt and infamy; society at large may be improved and softened, by a line of conduct being adopted in conformity with the highest motives and hopes that can adorn and dig- nify the human character.
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