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The Moral Basis of Punishment
Author(s) -
GASKELL AUSTIN
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
new blackfriars
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-2005
pISSN - 0028-4289
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-2005.1961.tb06908.x
Subject(s) - gratitude , resentment , honour , punishment (psychology) , capital punishment , law , psychology , criminology , social psychology , political science , politics
Example alone is the end of all public punishments and rewards. Laws never inflict disgrace in resentment, nor confer honour from gratitude. ‘For it is very hard, my lord’, said a convicted felon at the bar to the late excellent Judge Bumet, ‘to hang a poor man for stealing a horse’. ‘You are not to be hanged, sir’, answered my ever‐honoured and beloved friend, ‘for stealing a horse, but you are to be hanged that horses may not be stolen’.