Punishment
Different theories of criminal justice can usually be distinguished in how they answer questions about punishment. To avoid issues of semantics, in this section we must agree that punishment is a penalty imposed by a legal system along with (or because of) a stigma of wrongdoing or lawbreaking. This definition deliberately excludes penalties unrelated to wrongdoing or lawbreaking, even when imposed by a legal system. It also distinguishes or at least restricts this definition from the one used in operant conditioning.
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Famous quotes containing the word punishment:
“It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.”
—St. Augustine (354–430)
“Marijuana is ... self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)