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Jeremy Bentham
The Rationale of Punishment
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Source of the Text
This text was digitized from the edition published in 1830 by Robert
Heward, Wellington Street, the Strand, London. As is explained in the
``Advertisement'', the English version is actually a translation from
the French work of Dumont, La Théorie des Peines
(1811), as corrected from the original manuscripts of Bentham that
were the basis of the Dumont work, the which manuscripts were written
in the mid 1770's.
Table of Contents
- ``Advertisement''
- Book I, General Principles
- Book II, Of Corporal Punishments
- Chapter I
Simple Afflictive Punishments
- Section II
Examination of Simple Afflictive Punishments.
- Chapter II
Complex Afflictive Punishments
- Section I
Of Deformation, or Punishments which Alter the
Exterior of the Person
- Section II
Of Disablement, or Punishments Consisting in
Disabling an Organ
- Section III
Of Mutilation
- Analysis
Examination of complex afflictive Punishments
- Chapter III
Of Restrictive Punishments---Territorial Confinement
- Chapter IV
Imprisonment
- Chapter V
Imprisonment---Fees
- Chapter VI
Imprisonment Examined
- Chapter VII
General Scheme of Imprisonment
- Chapter VIII
Of other Species of Territorial Confinement---Quasi
Imprisonment---Relegation---Banishment
- Chapter IX
Of Simply Restrictive Punishment
- Chapter X
Of Active or Laborious Punishments
- Chapter XI
Capital Punishment
- Chapter XII
Capital Punishment examined
- Section I
Advantageous Properties of the Punishment of Death.
- Section II
Desirable Penal Qualities which are Wanting in
Capital Punishment.
- Section III
Recapitulation and Comparison of the Punishment of
Death, with those Punishments which may be Substituted
for it.
- Section IV
Collateral Evil Effects of the Frequent Use
of the Punishment of Death.
- Book III, Of Privative Punishments, or Forfeitures
- Chapter I
Privative Punishments Analyzed
- Chapter II
Of Punishments Belonging to the Moral Sanction
- Section II
Advantages and Disadvantages of the Punishments
Belonging to the Moral Sanction
- Chapter III
Forfeiture of Reputation
- Section II
Simple Ignominious Punishments Examined
- Chapter IV
Of Pecuniary Forfeiture
- Chapter V
Forfeiture of Condition
- Chapter VI
Forfeiture of the Protection of the Law
- Book IV, Of Mis-seated Punishment
- Book V, Of Complex Punishments
- Book VI, Miscellaneous Topics
- Chapter I
Choice of Punishments---Latitude to be allowed to the Judges
- Chapter II
Of Subsidiary Punishments
- Chapter III
Of Surety for good Conduct
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Chapter IV, Defeazance of Punishment
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