punishment
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Punishment is a penalty or consequence imposed on someone for breaking a rule or law, historically ranging from public shaming in devices like stocks to modern forms like fines or imprisonment. It matters because societies use punishment both to discourage people from committing harmful acts and to enforce the rules that allow communities to function together.
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- Definitions
- In philosophy
- In psychology
- In socio-biology
- Examples against sociobiological use
- Scope of application
- Justification of punishment
- Deterrence
- Rehabilitation
- Incapacitation
- Retribution
- Restorative Justice pain
- Education and denunciation
- Unified theory
- Hell as punishment
- Criticism
- Arguments from harm
- Destructiveness to thinking and betterment
- Commodification of crime
- See also
- Citations
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thumb|The old village stocks in Chapeltown, Lancashire, England
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 of unpleasant measures in a relationship.