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OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Punishment

Punishment

  • Disciplinary retribution
  • Excessive punishment

Narrower

Parental punishment
Excellent
Imprisonment
Excellent
Revenge
Presentable
Denial of right to freedom from cruel, inhumane or degrading punishment
Presentable
Corporal punishment
Presentable
Commercialization of crime-prevention
Presentable
Collective punishment
Presentable
Unjust punishments for crimes
Unpresentable
Punitive public attitudes towards crime
Yet to rate
Paternalistic punishment
Yet to rate
Eternal punishment
Yet to rate

Aggravates

Maltreatment of prisoners
Presentable

Aggravated by

Vigilantism
Presentable

Reduced by

Ineffective war crime prosecution
Excellent
Government failure to prosecute offenders
Yet to rate

Related

Vengeance
Unpresentable
Power complex
Yet to rate

Strategy

Delivering retribution
Yet to rate
Absolving murder
Yet to rate

Value

Communicativeness-Uncommunicativeness
Presentable
Temperance-Intemperance
Presentable
Expensiveness-Cheapness
Presentable
Atonement-Punishment
Presentable
Dueness-Undueness
Presentable
Oversufficiency-Insufficiency
Unpresentable
Vindication-Condemnation
Unpresentable
Forgiveness-Vengeance
Unpresentable
Retribution
Yet to rate
Punishment
Yet to rate
Excess
Yet to rate

Reference

Odera, H O: Punishment and Terrorism in Africa: problems in the philosophy and practice of punishment

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(B) Basic universal problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Societal problems » Detention
  • Societal problems » Punishment
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    A5583
    DOCID
    11155830
    D7NID
    148833
    Last update
    May 20, 2022