Punishments

thumb|The old village stocks in Chapeltown, Lancashire, England

thumb|''Napoleon's Exile on [[Saint Helena by Franz Josef Sandman (1820)]] thumb|The First Night in Exile – This painting comes from a series illustrating the Ramayana'', a Hindu epic poem. It depicts prince Rama, who is wrongly exiled from his father's kingdom, accompanied only by his wife and brother. thumb|Dante in Exile by Domenico Petarlini

Amputation is the removal of a limb or other body part by trauma, medical illness, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on individuals as a preventive surgery for such problems. A special case is that of congenital amputation, a congenital disorder, where fetal limbs have been cut off by constrictive bands. In some countries, judicial amputation is currently used to punish people who commit crimes. Amputation has also been used as a tactic in war and acts of terr

thumb|The Seven Works of Mercy, by [[Frans II Francken, 1605.]]

upright=0.8|thumb|Certificate of identity of an individual seeking re-entry to the United States during the [[Chinese Exclusion Act era, among the Chinese deportation records of the US District court, Los Angeles County, California]]

thumb|236px|Gustave Doré's image of the exercise yard at [[Newgate Prison (1872)]] A prisoner, also known as an inmate or detainee, is a person who is deprived of liberty against their will. This can be by confinement or captivity in a prison or physical restraint. The term usually applies to one serving a sentence in prison.

financial penalty

judicial penalty in which a person is confined to their residence

penalty or other mean of enforcement used to provide incentives for obedience with the law

thumb|right|Newton Knight (1837–1922) was an anti-Confederate rebel soldier and founder of the "Free State of Jones" in the area in and around [[Jones County, Mississippi, at the height of the American Civil War.]]

Confiscation (from the Latin confiscatio "to consign to the fiscus, i.e. transfer to the treasury") is a legal form of seizure by a government or other public authority. The word is also used, popularly, of spoliation under legal forms, or of any seizure of property as punishment or in enforcement of the law.

thumb|upright=1.35|Karl Bodmer's 1844 [[aquatint Scalp Dance of the Minitarres depicts Siouan Hidatsa people in a scalp dance.]] Scalping is the act of cutting or tearing a part of the human scalp, with hair attached, from the head, and generally occurred in warfare with the scalp being a trophy. Scalp-taking is considered part of the broader cultural practice of the taking and display of human body parts as trophies, and may have developed as an alternative to the taking of human heads, for scalps were easier to take, transport, and preserve for subsequent display. Scalping independently deve

sentence of imprisonment, not to be served, if the offender proves himself during the probation period

government policies which attempt to force people to undergo surgical sterilization

termination of employment decided unilaterally by employer

restriction on accessing an online resource

castration via anaphrodisiacal drugs, whether to reduce libido and sexual activity, to treat cancer, or otherwise

thumb|Hieronymus Bosch: Visions of the Hereafter (detail); depicting [[hell (between 1490 and 1516)]] Damnation (from Latin damnatio) is the concept of divine punishment after death for sins, or good actions not done, on Earth.

form of surveillance; form of punishment outside of a prison but with restrictions of movement and with permanent surveillance

loss of all or almost all civil rights

punishment in the Holy Roman Empire

form of punishment whose main feature is dishonoring or disgracing a person

the activities and situations that are carried out to achieve the desired behaviour in children

relocation of convicted criminals to a distant place

blocking or partially blocking a user or content from an online community without their awareness

notice issued by a law enforcement official to a motorist or other road user, indicating that the user has violated traffic laws

compensation paid by an offender (usually a murderer) or their family to kin of the victim

facet of operant conditioning; change in a human or animal's surroundings that occurs after a given behavior or response which reduces the likelihood of that behavior occurring again in the future

time away from a workplace as ordered by the employer in order for a workplace investigation to take place, or time away from school as punishment

distinctive symbol required to be worn by a specific group or an individual for the purpose of public humiliation, ostracism or persecution

thumb|upright=1.5|Daniel Defoe in the Pillory (Eyre Crowe, 1862) thumb|upright|The 17th-century perjurer Titus Oates in a pillory

A day-fine, unit fine or structured fine is a pecuniary sanction which is based on the severity of the offence as well as the income (or wealth) of the offender.

disciplinary action usually taken in the home by parents against children

corporal punishment applied as a court sentence

thumb|"Speak French, Be Clean" written on the wall of the Ayguatébia-Talau school

short removal of a person for disciplinary reasons

genre of defamatory painting (defaming portrait) and relief, common in Renaissance Italy in city-states in the north and center of the Italian Peninsula during the Trecento, Quattrocento, and Cinquecento

An amercement is a financial penalty in English law, common during the Middle Ages, imposed either by the court or by peers.

whereby a military officer is reduced to a lower rank for misconduct

punitive mark used by some teachers to indicate a person speaks a non-standard dialect

official rule or ruling prohibiting something generally, or forbidding someone to do something others can do

ritual public humiliation in France

thumb|300px|A prisoner who was shot and killed at Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex. The Postenpflicht (German: "Duty of guards") was a general order issued to SS-Totenkopfverbände guards in Nazi concentration camps to summarily execute insubordinate prisoners. The order required guards to shoot prisoners who engaged in resistance or escape attempts, without warning; failing to do so would result in dismissal or arrest. The Postenpflicht was originally issued on October 1, 1933, for guards at Dachau concentration camp, but was later extended to other concentration camps.

punishment of convicts other than the custodial sentence

Harsh Roman sentence for Christians

correctional facility for youth criminals