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Punishment

Punishment is the imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon an individual or group, as a response for breaking some norm or rule. The term punishment is used both within and outside of the criminal justice context. For example, punishment outside of criminal law can include child discipline measures or conscious or subconscious impositions…

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Justification of punishment

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Punishment

Nodes108
Edges107
Triples171
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018519
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related to References · 37
Punishment → Ashgate, CA, Cato Institute, Christian, Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Crime, Criminal Offenders, Encyclopædia Britannica, England, Eric, Gade, Hants, In Hamowy, Is, ISBN, Journal, Legal PunishmentEtymology OnlineBrooks, Leo, Libertarianism, Lippke
related to Justification of punishment · 12
Punishment → Aristotle, Bentham, Here, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Measurements, Mill, More, One, The, There, While
related to Incapacitation · 11
Punishment → Antisocial, Australia, British, Crewe, Imprisonment, In, Incapacitation, It, Should, The, This
related to Arguments from harm · 9
Punishment → Crime Prevention, Critics, Detractors, Golash, Law, Professor Deirdre Golash, Retribution, Some, The Case
related to External links · 9
Punishment → Bradley, Dowden, Fieser, Internet Encyclopedia, ISSN, James, OCLC, Philosophy, The Moral Permissibility
related to Hell as punishment · 7
Punishment → Belief, Dante's The Divine Comedy, Er, God, Hell, Plato's, Sometimes
related to Scope of application · 7
Punishment → Child, Children, Criminals, Employees, Most, Punishments, Slaves
related to Deterrence · 6
Punishment → Other, Reasons, Some, The, These, This
related to In psychology · 6
Punishment → Along, Extra, In, Introduced, Operant, Skinner
related to Restorative Justice pain · 6
Punishment → Beyond, Gavrielides, He, In, Some, This

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justice may crime behavior argue criminal pain people social crimes restorative considered offenders even discipline also unpleasant deterrence retribution example

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Punishmentis aimposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon an individual or group0.90text
Punishmentis areduction of a behavior via application of an unpleasant stimulus0.90text
reprimandsinstance ofand may include sanctions0.80text
removing privilegesinstance ofand may include sanctions0.80text
deprivation of libertyinstance ofand may include sanctions0.80text
finesinstance ofand may include sanctions0.80text
incarcerationsinstance ofand may include sanctions0.80text
ostracisminstance ofand may include sanctions0.80text
social shunninginstance ofand may include sanctions0.80text
the infliction of paininstance ofand may include sanctions0.80text
amputationinstance ofand may include sanctions0.80text
the death penaltyinstance ofand may include sanctions0.80text

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