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  2. Punishment - Wikipedia

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    Punishment, commonly, is the imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon an individual or group, meted out by an authority [1] [2] [3] ...

  3. Collective punishment - Wikipedia

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    Collective punishment is a punishment or sanction imposed on a group or whole community for acts allegedly perpetrated by a member or some members of that group or area, which could be an ethnic or political group, or just the family, friends and neighbors of the perpetrator, as well as entire cities and communities where the perpetrator(s ...

  4. Collective responsibility - Wikipedia

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    Collective responsibility or collective guilt, is the responsibility of organizations, groups and societies. [1] [2] Collective responsibility in the form of collective punishment is often used as a disciplinary measure in closed institutions, e.g., boarding schools (punishing a whole class for the actions of one known or unknown pupil), military units, prisons (juvenile and adult ...

  5. Capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, [1] [2] is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. [3] The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence , and the act of carrying out the sentence is known ...

  6. Category:Punishments - Wikipedia

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    For articles about the general concept of punishment, use the parent Category:Punishment. Subcategories. This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 21 ...

  7. Deterrence (penology) - Wikipedia

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    There are two main goals of deterrence theory. Individual deterrence is the aim of punishment to discourage the offender from criminal acts in the future. The belief is that when punished, offenders recognise the unpleasant consequences of their actions on themselves and will change their behaviour accordingly.

  8. List of landmark court decisions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Bearden v. Georgia, 461 U.S. 660 (1983) A sentencing court cannot properly revoke a defendant's probation for failure to pay a fine and make restitution, absent evidence and findings that he was somehow responsible for the failure or that alternative forms of punishment were inadequate to meet the State's interest in punishment and deterrence.

  9. Corporal punishment - Wikipedia

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    A corporal punishment or a physical punishment is a punishment which is intended to cause physical pain to a person. When it is inflicted on minors , especially in home and school settings, its methods may include spanking or paddling .