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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be. - George Bernard Shaw Attribution: George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. First published as “Reasonable Murder,” Sunday Express (May 13, 1928). Crude Criminology, “Imprisonment,” Doctors’ Delusions, Crude Criminology, and Sham Education, Constable (1950).

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