Crime in Its Relations to Social Progress, Issue 40 |
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... vengeance of man in this present world and the wrath of God in a world to come . But to the scientifically trained mind the criminal is a char- acter who should be examined with painstaking care and by precise methods , to determine how ...
... vengeance of man in this present world and the wrath of God in a world to come . But to the scientifically trained mind the criminal is a char- acter who should be examined with painstaking care and by precise methods , to determine how ...
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... vengeance inflicted .. The coming of the king and danger of too great tameness The progressive social equilibrium and crime as the price of growth ... CHAPTER IV ..... SAVAGE RACES IN AUSTRALIA , AMERICA , ASIA AND AFRICA . Evidences of ...
... vengeance inflicted .. The coming of the king and danger of too great tameness The progressive social equilibrium and crime as the price of growth ... CHAPTER IV ..... SAVAGE RACES IN AUSTRALIA , AMERICA , ASIA AND AFRICA . Evidences of ...
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... vengeance , " half punishment , half outrage , " upon some hated member of the band . Few acts , however , were punished by the social groups , as such , and few acts were therefore crimes . Injuries to individuals were left to private ...
... vengeance , " half punishment , half outrage , " upon some hated member of the band . Few acts , however , were punished by the social groups , as such , and few acts were therefore crimes . Injuries to individuals were left to private ...
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... vengeance ( his undoubted right ) . The penalty was proportioned to the provocation , and not to the offence . Later , the laws hardened into a compulsory seeking and acceptance of composition offered for an offence , before private ...
... vengeance ( his undoubted right ) . The penalty was proportioned to the provocation , and not to the offence . Later , the laws hardened into a compulsory seeking and acceptance of composition offered for an offence , before private ...
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... vengeance struck down the man who had harmed his fellow man , so social vengeance destroyed the malefactor who had injured the social body so seriously as to awaken in its members the passionate longing for revenge . There was no ...
... vengeance struck down the man who had harmed his fellow man , so social vengeance destroyed the malefactor who had injured the social body so seriously as to awaken in its members the passionate longing for revenge . There was no ...
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Abipones actions acts adultery ancient customs Anglo-Saxon animals become benefit of clergy Bushmen cent century chief Church civilization clergy Cnut common law conduct convicted courts criminal law death penalty decrease despotic Dhimals dooms enforced England English evidence evil exist felonies fines forgery forms of crime growth Hallam harmful heinous Henry History homicide Ibid imprisonment incest increase indictable offences individual inflicted injury instinctive justice killed king king's liberty Maitland and Pollock ment misdemeanors modern moral murder nation nature NUMBER OF PERSONS obedience offences outlawry Parliament peace penal political population prisoners progress proportion prosecution punished as crimes race reflex action reign religious revenge robbery Roman savage serious crimes social group social pressure social punishment society SPD SPD Star Chamber statistics statutes Stephen strong theft Thorpe tion tort Traill treason trial tribe true crimes witchcraft wrong
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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.