While helping and punitive behaviors seem universal among humans, they do vary across cultures.
Rory Whelan, Time Warner Cable's regional vice president for government relations, spoke of CBS's behavior as "outrageous punitive conduct," adding that it represented "the antithesis of acting in the public interest".
Main and Cassidy observed that disorganized behavior in infancy can develop into a child using caregiving-controlling or punitive behaviour in order to manage a helpless or dangerously unpredictable caregiver.
However, the proximate motives underpinning punitive behaviour are currently debated.
Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support is a school-wide system for moving from punitive approaches to behavior and toward reinforcement of positive behavior.
It is often such blindness, negative emotions, and stereotypes that result in disrespectful, punitive, or contemptuous behavior towards African Americans and failure to do or say anything about it when it happens even though the same folks may actually love Obama, Oprah, and Will Smith.
Additionally, marginalized students are more vulnerable to peer victimization, and efforts to defend themselves put them at high risk for consequences under zero tolerance and other highly punitive responses to behaviors labeled bullying.
In Malaysia, where a similarly draconian stance towards drug use (and users) has mellowed slightly, common obstacles to access to those we identify were evident: punitive laws criminalizing behaviors; heavy-handed police responses; little attempt by government to educate communities.
On the other hand, some states have used punitive laws to criminalize behaviors that are associated with potential exposure to HIV (defined as HIV-specific criminal laws) [ 6– 8].
The problem is that punitive measures to force healthy behavior do not usually work.
