Punishment [addendum]
Since 1967, preventive theories of punishment (whether strictly utilitarian or more loosely consequentialist) have entered a long decline, beginning with the virtual disappearanc...
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Punishment
The word punishment is used in varying contexts. The punishment meted out by the state to a criminal or by a parent to his children is not the same as the punishment boxers give or receive....
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Punishment
Penalty imposed on another as a result of unwanted behavior.
Punishment is often used as a synonym for
discipline, but the two are not interchangeable. Discipline is a system of actions or ...
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On the subject of crime and punishment and whether punishment is always necessary for a crime as thought by the retributivists or on the utilitarian view that punishment is only necessary if it benef...
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Punishment Versus Discipline
When it comes to raising children there are two different ways to deal with problems. You can punish your child when they do something wrong, and this can involve verba...
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Terrorism: How could Eva Haule, a Marxist terrorist, so easily manipulate German justice with only a handful of years in jail for the cold-blooded murder of a U.S. soldier? Not only is it a travest...
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Several months ago, 15 Penn State football players got into a brawl, resulting in six of them being arrested. Then team's iconic coach, Joe Paterno, responded to the incident by requiring the entir...
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China has fired or otherwise punished five officials for failing to prevent pollution blamed for a massive algae bloom in one of the country's biggest lakes, a newspaper reported Monday.The central...
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Such is the state of modern society that the U.S. Supreme Court gets the job of deciding how much pain the victim of capital punishment feels — never mind what kind of pain the victim's victi...
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A teacher who forced nearly 140 teenage girls to squat in a fish pond as a punishment for throwing sanitary pads into toilet bowls has been reprimanded but will keep her job, an official said Thurs...
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Stop executions for a while and perhaps they can be stopped forever. That calculation has been part of the strategy of capital punishment opponents for decades.The Supreme Court-inspired slowdown i...
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Zagreb (dpa) - Croatia wildly celebrated Wednesday's victory over
"arrogant" England in London which left the home side out of next
summer's European Championships.
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Students arrested in weeks of protests at Gallaudet University won't be punished further, said the new head of the nation's leading campus for the deaf."No student who was arrested will receive add...
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China has punished dozens of low-level officials for allowing brick kilns to operate using slave labor, but cleared higher-ranking officials of wrongdoing and dismissed allegations of corruption, a...
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