Theory of Legislation (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Jeremy Bentham

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440057419 ISBN 13 : 9781440057410

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A practical vision: laws that repair harm through fair compensation, prevention, and prudent penalties.

This edition presents a method for reducing wrongdoing by making it easier to repair injuries and share the costs of wrongs. It argues that many offenses can be addressed with simple pecuniary compensation, while balancing public and private interests. The text also examines how insurance, public funds, and careful penalties can limit harm and deter future violations. The aim is to connect legal theory with humane, effective policy that protects individuals and society.

• Explore how compensation and prevention can reshape responses to crime and injury.
• Learn how penalties might balance deterrence with fairness, avoiding excessive punishment.
• Discover a framework for evaluating when laws should emphasize restitution over retribution.
• See discussions of public vs. private means to fund indemnities and reduce fraud risks.

Ideal for readers of legal philosophy, policy, and reform who want a clear, historically informed case for repair-minded lawmaking.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Vli degrees, and what a vast career I have run through, I regret that the labour had not fallen into abler hands; yet I am encouraged to applaud my perseverance, convinced as I am that other wise these manuscripts would for a long time have remained buried in their own bulk, and that the author, always rushing forward, would never have found the leisure nor the courage to give himself up to the ungrateful labour of a general revision. This ardour to produce, and this indifference to publication; this perseverance in the severest labours ;and this disposition to abandon his work at the moment of completion, presents a singularity which needs to be explained. As soon as Bentham had discovered the great divisions, the great classifications of laws, he embraced legislation as a whole, and formed the vast project of treating it in all its parts. He considered it not as composed of detached works, but as forming a single work. He had before his eyes the general chart of the science, and after that model he framed particular charts of all its departments. Hence it follows that the most striking peculiarity of his writings is their perfect correspondence. I have found the earlier ones full of references to works which were merely projected, but of which the divisions, the forms, the principal ideas, existed already in separate tables. It is thus that, having subjected all his materials to a general plan, each branch of legislation occupies its appropriate place, and none is to be found under two divisions. This order necessarily supposes an author who has for a long time considered his subject in all its relations; who masters the whole of it; and who is not influenced by a puerile impatience for renown. I have seen him suspend a work almost finished, and com pose a new one, only to assure himself of the truth of a single proposition which seemed to be doubtful. A p
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440057419
• ISBN 13: 9781440057410
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 494
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