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Comment: “Punishment should be preventive and corrective rather than retaliatory.” (Bentham)

  • UPSC 1995
  • Democracy

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The statement condenses the theory of punishment in Jeremy Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789), chapters XIII–XV. If mankind is governed by pleasure and pain, pain for its own sake is never justified: punishment must look forward to harm prevented, not backward to harm done. The view humanised criminal law…

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  • Punishment as a Necessary Evil
  • The Corrective Programme
  • The Critique
  • Indian Illustration
  • Conclusion
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