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Punishment - Great Britain

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    An Act for the more effectual preventing and punishing robberies that shall be committed in houses

    Great Britain | Date: 1713]
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    The means of effectually preventing theft and robbery : together with our present cruel punishments of those and other crimes : the means of immediately suppressing vagrant beggary : of speedily abolishing our poor's rates : and of relieving the present oppression of our labouring commonalty.

    | Date: 1783
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    A view of the hard-labour bill being an abstract of a pamphlet, intituled, "draught of a bill, to punish by imprisonment and hard-labour, certain offenders; and to establish proper Places for their Reception. " Interspersed with observations relative to the subject of the above draught in particular, and to penal Jurisprudence in general. By Jeremy Bentham, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq.

    Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832. | Date: 1778
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