A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their PreventionColquhoun, Patrick
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A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention
Colquhoun, Patrick
Crime -- England -- London; Police -- England -- London
66. Consenting to shameful Condemnation to the public
debauchery in his house; works, from 1 month to 1 year;
Keeping a _Bawdy House_. to be augmented when an innocent
person has been seduced;
second offence, the pillory.
67. Any person, man or woman, Imprisonment from 1 month
making a business of to a year; second offence,
prostitution, and deriving punishment double, and augmented
profit from thence. by fasting and corporal
correction.
68. Dealing in Books, Pictures, Imprisonment from 1 day to 1
or Prints which represent month.
indecent actions.
69. Disguising in masks, and The same.
obtaining admission into
societies, and secret
fraternities not notified to
the Magistrate.
70. Harbouring in dwellings The same.
persons not known to have an
honest mean of living.
71. Banished persons, from Corporal correction, to be
the whole of the Austrian doubled at each successive return;
Dominions--returning, &c. and the offender to be banished
from the Hereditary Dominions.
[Footnote 15: In cases where a criminal appears to be remarkably
depraved, and that the apprehensions he may excite require such
precautions, he shall be branded on each cheek with the mark of a
gallows, so visibly and strongly impressed as not to be effaced either
by time or any other means whatever.]
[Footnote 16: This punishment is different from the pillory in
England. In the German Language it signifies an exposure on the public
theatre of shame. The Criminal is chained and guarded on an elevated
scaffold, and exposed an hour at a time, with a paper on his breast
denoting his offence.]
[Footnote 17: When a criminal is condemned to severe imprisonment, he
has no bed but the floor, no nourishment but bread and water, and all
communication with relations, or even strangers, is refused him. When
condemned to milder imprisonment, better nourishment is allowed; but
he has nothing to drink but water.]
[Footnote 18: Corporal punishment is inflicted with a whip, rod, or
stick, publicly, on the criminal; the degree of punishment (within 100
lashes or strokes at one time) depends on the sound prudence of the
Judge.]
[Footnote 19: The punishment of the Chain is inflicted in the
following manner. The criminal suffers severe imprisonment, and is so
closely chained, that he has no more liberty than serves for the
indispensable motion of his body.--Chained criminals suffer a corporal
punishment once a year, as an example to the Public.]
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