జర్నల్ ఆఫ్ సివిల్ & లీగల్ సైన్సెస్

నైరూప్య

Hating-criminals

John E

The eminent English judge and jurist Sir James Fitzjames Stephen once famously said that it was desirable that criminals should be hated, and that the punishments inflicted on them should be contrived so as to give expression to that hatred, and to justify it in so far as the public provision of means for expressing and gratifying a “healthy natural sen- timent” could justify and encourage it.