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Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Elizabeth Fry

1848

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Theory of punishment Criminal law Legal theory Law

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1848

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Elizabeth Fry

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Fry, Elizabeth. Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry, edited by Katharine Fry and Rachel Elizabeth Cresswell. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ch. 10.

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Fry, Elizabeth. Note found among her papers. c. 1848.

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