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The Punishment of the Insane
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
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Punishment is the positive infliction of suffering as a righteous result of wrong-doing, and as a deterrent from its repetition. But the wrong-doing of the insane is the result of their malady, which produces it either directly through delusion, or indirectly by perverting their moral sense and relaxing their self-control.
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