PUNISHMENT PHILOSOPHY

Punishment Philosophy

Punishment Philosophy

Introduction

Punishment is the practice of imposing something unpleasant or aversive on a person or animal or property, usually in response to disobedience, defiance, or behavior deemed morally wrong by individual, governmental, or religious principles.

In common usage, the word punishment might be described as an authorized imposition of deprivations of freedom or privacy or other goods to which the person otherwise has a right, or the imposition of special burdens because the person has been found guilty of some criminal violation, typically (though not invariably) involving harm to the innocent.( Cavadino, 1997)

Introduced by B.F. Skinner, punishment has a ...