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Ancient Romans developed quite an effective and cohesive system of measures guaranteeing the imminence and certainty of retribution for crime, whose aim was to satisfy the public sense of justice and to ensure that punishment be not only severe, but also unavoidable. Measures used to guarantee commencement of criminal proceedings and to prevent offenders from escaping criminal prosecution included...