Sentence examples for objects of punishment from inspiring English sources

Desert theory is much more concerned than is deterrence theory with punishing only persons who are the proper objects of punishment and with punishing those persons only as much as they deserve.

Deterrence theories also are criticised for allowing persons who are not proper objects of punishment to be punished when this succeeds in deterring other people from breaching the law.

If such admission, plea, and apology require that the wrongdoer repent, reparation may seem to require that the wrongdoer be punished, given Locke's view that repentance is among the objects of punishment (Locke 1689: sec 8).

Lad, in turn, breaks the rules of perfect obedience and growls, becoming the object of punishment and taking the beating in her stead.

Her investigation reveals the American project to prosecute Nazi crimes as one in which criminal punishment became a design object at the same time that design became an object of criminal punishment.

Thus the will of individuals is still left free; the abuse only of that free will is the object of legal punishment.

By the latter half of the 20th century, however, many people in Western countries objected to this view of punishment, believing that it placed too little responsibility on offenders for their actions, undervalued the additional deterrent effect derivable from severe, as compared with moderate, punishment, and ignored society's ostensible right to retribution.

While ordinary Americans are treated as citizens and consumers, deprived and racially segregated populations are seen as objects of surveillance, containment, and punishment.

The "present" has 3 meanings in MF's work. 1. – As Foucault's object of research the "present" is the fact of punishment as the producing/production engine of power relations.

It was Las Casas's intention to reveal to Spain the reason for the misfortune that would inevitably befall it when it became the object of God's punishment.

Seven of them lumped together nonabusive spanking with more severe forms of punishment, such as shaking, hitting with an object, or name-calling [ 30- 36].