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Criminal Lunatic Asylums: or Murder unprovoked by the victim the death penalty. Murder with attendant cruelty


II. VIOLENT OR IMPULSIVE CHARACTERS (deficiency of the sense of pity, with prejudices on the subject of honour, on the duty of revenge, &c.). Adults who commit--

Violent assault suddenly provoked Removal of the offender from the by a cruel injury neighbourhood of the victim or Justifiable homicide in self-defence his family.

Transportation to an island, colony Homicide to avenge honour or village--at liberty, under (isolated or endemic) supervision (for an indefinite period, with from 5 to 10 years supervision).

Bodily injury during a quarrel; Damages and fine: heavy for such slight and transitory malice; as can pay. Alternative blows; threats; slander; verbal penalty:--deduction from wages, insults or forced labour. Imprisonment in case of refusal.

Malicious injury or disfigurement; Criminal lunatic asylum (for mutilation; rape or outrage with hysterical or epileptic), or violence; restraint on personal Transportation for an indefinite liberty period, with supervision from 5 to 10 years.

Young persons who commit-- Criminal lunatic asylums (for those with congenital Crimes of violence without excuse, tendencies). or rape Penal colony in case of relapse. Transportation without constraint.

III. DISHONEST CRIMINALS. Adults who commit-- Habitual theft, swindling, incendiarism, Lunatic asylums (if insane or forgery, extortion epileptic). Transportation. Labour-gangs (unfixed periods); Occasional theft; swindling; or suspension of right to exercise forgery; extortion; incendiarism a profession, until complete reparation of damage.

Peculation; embezzlement; sale of Loss of office. Suspension of offices; abuse of authority civil rights. Fine. Restitution. Incendiarism; vindictive destruction Reparation of damage (with optional of property (without personal imprisonment). Criminal injury) lunatic asylums (for the insane). Transportation (for recidivists).

Bankruptcy, when due to malpractice Restitution. Prohibition to trade or to discharge public functions.

Uttering false coin; forgery of stock Imprisonment (unfixed periods) and certificates; personation, and fine, in addition to loss of false witness, &c. office, and restitution.

Bigamy, palming or concealment of Banishment for unfixed periods. birth


Young persons who commit-- Theft, swindling, &c. An agricultural colony (for unfixed periods).


IV. Persons guilty of--

Outbreaks, resistance or disobedience Imprisonment(for unfixed periods) to authority



In other words, the system of repression proposed by M. Garofalo amounts to this:--

Absolute elimination of the criminal Penalty of death Criminal lunatic asylum. Transportation with liberty. Perpetual banishment.

Relative elimination Banishment for various periods. Agricultural colonies. Interdiction from a particular
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