Flashcards: Punishments

The imperial ban (German: Reichsacht) was a form of outlawry in the Holy Roman Empire.

Retributive justice is a theory of justice which holds that the best response to a crime is a proportionate punishment, inflicted for its own sake rather than to serve an extrinsic social purpose, such as deterrence or rehabilitation of the offender.

Disfranchisement (also called disenfranchisement) is the revocation of the right of suffrage (the right to vote) of a person or group of people, or through practices, prevention of a person exercising the right to vote.

Sanctions, in law and legal definition, are penalties or other means of enforcement used to provide incentives for obedience with the law, or with rules and regulations.

In justice and law, house arrest (also called home confinement, home detention, or electronic monitoring) is a measure by which a person is confined by the authorities to a certain residence.

A suspended sentence is a legal term for a judge's delaying of a defendant's serving of a sentence after they have been found guilty, in order to allow the defendant to perform a period of probation.

A Punishment is meted out by the Authority as an imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon a group or individual, in response and deterrent to a particular action or behaviour that is deemed unacceptable, threatening to some norm and/or breaks the rules or laws by which the social group is governed.

Confiscation (from the Latin confiscatio "joining to the fiscus, i.e. transfer to the treasury") is a legal seizure by a government or other public authority.

Detention is the process when a state or private citizen lawfully holds a person by removing his or her freedom of liberty at that time.

Probation in criminal law is a period of supervision over an offender, ordered by a court instead of serving time in prison.

Mercy (Middle English, from Anglo-French merci, from Medieval Latin merced-, merces, from Latin, "price paid, wages", from merc-, merxi "merchandise") is a broad term that refers to benevolence, forgiveness and kindness in a variety of ethical, religious, social and legal contexts.

Suspension is a form of punishment that people receive for violating rules and regulations.

Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial, usually for security reasons.

Child discipline is the methods used to prevent future behavioral problems in children.

Chastisement is the infliction of corporal punishment as defined by law.