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Similarly, advocates of disenfranchisement believe that "a punishment of incarceration without disenfranchisement...would be too lenient".

"That a punishment is rarely imposed demonstrates nothing more than a general consensus that it should be just that — rarely imposed," he wrote.

In this context, given that a punishment has to have a certain unpleasantness about it if it's going to work, I can't for the life of me see why we get in such a lather about a smack.

Normally even minor crimes are subject to a conditional discharge, meaning that a punishment could be meted out if they reoffend within a  A Berkshire magistrate gave a 51-year-old man on disability benefits an absolute discharge earlier this month after he was caught with around £5 worth of cannabis at home.

Fehr and Gächter (2000) show that a punishment option, after contributions are revealed, increases cooperation.

The second argument turns, that is, on a retributivist conception of punishment a conception according to which a punishment is appropriate only if it is deserved and a further claim to the effect that a punishment is never deserved in the retributivist's sense if the crime was not efficiently caused by the agent to whom the punishment is issued.

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He had been promised to be taken to see Santa Claus that evening, but his mother felt that, as a punishment he should stay home.

That's a punishment essentially comparable to having an N.F.L. coach miss preseason games.

"That's a punishment.

Every country that has a punishment approach ends up with way more Maori or black kids in prison.

Evelyn misses a pair; an oversight that results in a punishment that takes place behind the closed door of the bathroom.

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