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Penology Old and New. Tagore Law Lectures 1929

1943

He gives a full and lucid description of the immense advance in the science of penology which has taken place in Europe and America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and of the systems at present in force or under trial whict have for their purpose the recon-"X FOREWORD ciling of the claim of the State to protect itself against the criminal with the claim of the latter to be regarded [...] I warmly commend the book to all those who are interested in the building of the new structure of society which must surely emerge after the War, unless the War has been fought in vain,—a society built upon the firm foundation of human personality, in which the rights of the State are not omnipotent but are no more than the sum of the rights of all the citizens who compose it. [...] The first two may be graduated or modulated—the length of the period of imprisonment, or the circum- stances of severity of the imprisonment, being made to vary not with reference to the offender but with reference to the gravity of the offence as disclosed by the objective circumstances of its commission How is the gravity to be ascertained? [...] Ordinarily, the respective functions of the judge and the jury are marked out by saying that the judge is the interpreter of the law and is the proper authority to apply it, whereas the jury is the master of the facts and is the proper authority to give its verdict on them. [...] The character and quality of the methods must vary with the character and quality of the crime and the criminal—often more of the criminal than of the crime committed by him.
law
Pages
251
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xii Prosanto Kumar Sen view
Lecture I. Introduction
1-18 Prosanto Kumar Sen view
Lecture II. Crime and Punishment
19-40 Prosanto Kumar Sen view
Lecture III. History and Theory of Punishment. Deportation
41-60 Prosanto Kumar Sen view
Lecture IV. History and Theory of Punishment (Continued)
61-79 Prosanto Kumar Sen view
Lecture V. Penal Science in Ancient India
80-95 Prosanto Kumar Sen view
Lecture VI. Penal Science in Ancient India(Continued)
96-116 Prosanto Kumar Sen view
Lecture VII. Penal Science in Ancient India (Continued)
117-131 Prosanto Kumar Sen view
Lecture VIII. Progressive Legislative Realization of Measures of Safety.
132-148 Prosanto Kumar Sen view
Lecture IX. Juvenile Delinquency
149-172 Prosanto Kumar Sen view
Lecture X. Measures Against Adolescent Criminality.
173-188 Prosanto Kumar Sen view
Lecture XI. Measures Against the Adolescent and the Partially Responsible Criminal
189-208 Prosanto Kumar Sen view
Lecture XII. New Methods for Old
209-232 Prosanto Kumar Sen view
Index
233-239 Prosanto Kumar Sen view

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