All 3 Uses of
servitude
in
Crime and Punishment
- Society is too well protected by prisons, banishment, criminal investigators, penal servitude.†
Chpt 3.5 *
- What's the object of these senseless sufferings? shall I know any better what they are for, when I am crushed by hardships and idiocy, and weak as an old man after twenty years' penal servitude?†
Chpt 6.7
- And in the end the criminal was, in consideration of extenuating circumstances, condemned to penal servitude in the second class for a term of eight years only.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(servitude) to be under another's control -- especially subject to forced labor