Crime in Its Relations to Social Progress, Issue 40 |
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... judge , and often executioner . They alone They alone determined what constituted crime . They alone had power to condemn and punish criminals . Crime was and is a social product . How then shall we define crime ? Crime is any act or ...
... judge , and often executioner . They alone They alone determined what constituted crime . They alone had power to condemn and punish criminals . Crime was and is a social product . How then shall we define crime ? Crime is any act or ...
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... judge from the standpoint of present public opinion . Under the rule of law men have been slowly and painfully learning to curb their hasty passions . Crimes of force show a very great decrease during the last few centuries , and they ...
... judge from the standpoint of present public opinion . Under the rule of law men have been slowly and painfully learning to curb their hasty passions . Crimes of force show a very great decrease during the last few centuries , and they ...
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... judge , who refused to surrender a supposed murderer to Kentucky authorities , on the ground that the great number of lynchings in that State rendered a legal trial improbable . The lower we get in the scale of intelligence , the more ...
... judge , who refused to surrender a supposed murderer to Kentucky authorities , on the ground that the great number of lynchings in that State rendered a legal trial improbable . The lower we get in the scale of intelligence , the more ...
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... judge in peace , sworn to observe and to enforce the sacred , ancient customs of the race . He becomes priest and prophet- finally he is worshipped as a god - supported in all this by the people , as the manifestation of the social ...
... judge in peace , sworn to observe and to enforce the sacred , ancient customs of the race . He becomes priest and prophet- finally he is worshipped as a god - supported in all this by the people , as the manifestation of the social ...
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... judge of his own actions , and to know no punisment but death , and this perhaps is never inflicted but upon a public enemy . " Four . Anth . Inst . , 1899 , pp . 314 , 316 , 335 . ' Earl's Kolff's Voyages of the Dourga , p . 161 ...
... judge of his own actions , and to know no punisment but death , and this perhaps is never inflicted but upon a public enemy . " Four . Anth . Inst . , 1899 , pp . 314 , 316 , 335 . ' Earl's Kolff's Voyages of the Dourga , p . 161 ...
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Page v - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Page 36 - But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman ; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
Page 136 - I, then, Alfred, king, gathered these together, and commanded many of those to be written which our forefathers held, those which to me seemed good ; and many of those which seemed to me not good I rejected them, by the counsel of my
Page 12 - The very considerations which judges most rarely mention, and always with an apology, are the secret root from which the law draws all the juices of life. I mean of course, considerations of what is expedient for the community concerned.
Page 14 - The distinction of public wrongs from private, of crimes and misdemeanors from civil injuries, seems principally to consist in this: that private wrongs or civil injuries are an infringement or privation of the civil rights which belong to individuals, considered merely as individuals...
Page 328 - Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born, that drops into its place, And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.
Page 149 - The bishops and learned men cursed them continually, but the effect thereof was nothing to them; for they were all accursed, and forsworn, and abandoned. To till the ground was to plough the sea: the earth bare no corn, for the land was all laid waste by such deeds; and...
Page 393 - He who would win the name of truly great Must understand his own age and the next, And make the present ready to fulfil Its prophecy, and with the future merge Gently and peacefully, as wave with wave.