The American Journal of Sociology, Volume 16Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer University of Chicago Press, 1911 Established in 1895 as the first U.S. scholarly journal in its field, AJS remains a leading voice for analysis and research in the social sciences, presenting work on the theory, methods, practice, and history of sociology. AJS also seeks the application of perspectives from other social sciences and publishes papers by psychologists, anthropologists, statisticians, economists, educators, historians, and political scientists. |
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... murder must be premeditated , or accompanied with other crime , if punished by death penalty . The increasing and frequently excessive indulgence of magis- trates has lessened the fear of the law , and as a consequence criminals have ...
... murder must be premeditated , or accompanied with other crime , if punished by death penalty . The increasing and frequently excessive indulgence of magis- trates has lessened the fear of the law , and as a consequence criminals have ...
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... murders annually occur- ring are also relics of barbarism ; but one is the killing of the innocent and the other of ... murdered in the United States every year . Most of these are helpless women . Many of these murderers escape , and ...
... murders annually occur- ring are also relics of barbarism ; but one is the killing of the innocent and the other of ... murdered in the United States every year . Most of these are helpless women . Many of these murderers escape , and ...
Page 92
... murder may cause hesitancy and thus tend to lessen such mur- ders , so that where the death penalty is in force and murders are increasing , the increase might be still greater , were there no death penalty . For all criminals , whether ...
... murder may cause hesitancy and thus tend to lessen such mur- ders , so that where the death penalty is in force and murders are increasing , the increase might be still greater , were there no death penalty . For all criminals , whether ...
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... murder are as yet not adequately col- lected , and if they were , the question could not be determined without ... murders or other crimes of violence have decreased or increased after the abolishment of the death penalty , does not show ...
... murder are as yet not adequately col- lected , and if they were , the question could not be determined without ... murders or other crimes of violence have decreased or increased after the abolishment of the death penalty , does not show ...
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... murder from 1896 to 1905 . The law of 1868 regulates the death penalty in Great Britain . Murder , high treason , and incendiarism of war vessels are pun- 16 3 TABLE 1 PERSONS SENTENCED TO DEATH , 1886-1905 No. SENTENCE COMMUTED TO YEAR ...
... murder from 1896 to 1905 . The law of 1868 regulates the death penalty in Great Britain . Murder , high treason , and incendiarism of war vessels are pun- 16 3 TABLE 1 PERSONS SENTENCED TO DEATH , 1886-1905 No. SENTENCE COMMUTED TO YEAR ...
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Page 351 - I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.
Page 406 - For their mother hath played the harlot : she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
Page 47 - Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions.
Page 412 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance...
Page 317 - The principle of utility recognizes this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation of that system, the object of which is to rear the fabric of felicity by the hands of reason and of law.
Page 203 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as determine what we shall do.
Page 406 - When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
Page 412 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Page 319 - So that no school can avoid taking for the ultimate moral aim a desirable state of feeling called by whatever name — gratification, enjoyment, happiness.
Page 125 - THE first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.