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(1842) [MARC] Author: Oscar I Translator: Alfred May
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asserted, that the improvement of the fallen being,
fallen generally in consequence of evil example
and bad advice, has been attended to, by placing
him in daily contact with others equally vicious,
equally criminal. This mutual effect of feelings
and impressions, where the evil will always retain
the superiority; these relations of exciting
adventures, of successfully accomplished robberies, or
cleverly calculated thefts, with which the long,
wearisome prisou-hours are dissipated, will they not still
more increase the corruption, and by degrees carry
vice to the utmost degree of enormity? But, it
is answered, a negative advantage is at least gained,
that namely: that the prisoner has not had an
opportunity of learning other crimes than those he
himself had committed, and thus had not at least
become worse. This gain is only imaginary, for
in the same proportion as demoralisation increases,
in the same degree are the limits of crime extended;
and what had society gained by each separate kind
of vice and crime being, as it were in corporations,
both developed and studied in the so called houses
of correction.

There is also another ground for the
classification of prisoners, namely the different degrees of
improvement or obduracy they have shown during
their period of imprisonment. At the first glance
this idea seems easy to put in practice, and
appears to contain a just punishment and a

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