A Documentary History of Australia: Colonial Australia, 1788-1840Nelson, 1980 - Australia |
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Page 84
... crime in Britain ? Was it sufficient punishment ? Did it reform criminals or only serve to harden them ? Was it too expensive ? Were there other and better ways of dealing with a rising rate of crime ? Sir Charles Bunbury had raised ...
... crime in Britain ? Was it sufficient punishment ? Did it reform criminals or only serve to harden them ? Was it too expensive ? Were there other and better ways of dealing with a rising rate of crime ? Sir Charles Bunbury had raised ...
Page 493
... crime and the punishment of it ; as if the whole colony were continually in motion towards the several courts of justice , and the most painful reflection of all must be , that so many capital sentences , and the execution of them ...
... crime and the punishment of it ; as if the whole colony were continually in motion towards the several courts of justice , and the most painful reflection of all must be , that so many capital sentences , and the execution of them ...
Page 502
... crime , " that , although there was a slight increase in the actual extent of crime between the years 1833 and 1834 , there has not only been a great positive decrease in such actual extent in the whole of the three years of 1833 , 1834 ...
... crime , " that , although there was a slight increase in the actual extent of crime between the years 1833 and 1834 , there has not only been a great positive decrease in such actual extent in the whole of the three years of 1833 , 1834 ...
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