punishments
Sentences for wrongdoing
Punishments are penalties imposed for wrongdoing.
The word covers everything from a child's timeout to a prison sentence.
In casual use, punishment extends to any harsh treatment: My knees took a punishment on that hike.
A glutton for punishment is someone who keeps accepting difficult or unpleasant situations.
Beating as punishment
- caningStriking with a rod
- spankingStriking the buttocks
- whippingRepeated striking blows
- lashingBeating or binding
beating · paddling · birching · strapping · switching · bastinado · stocks · pillory
Imposing legal punishment
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- convictionFirmly held belief
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
court · judge · trial · verdict · jury · defendant · guilty · appeal
Results of actions taken
- rulesPrinciples governing behavior
- authorityPower to enforce obedience
- obedienceCompliance with authority
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
behavior · conduct · standards · expectations · accountability · structure · order · regulation
Acceptable in quality
- forfeitureLoss due to breach
- sanctionApproval or punitive measure
- damagesCompensation for injury
- restitutionRestoring what was lost
compensation · levy · surcharge · fee · assessment · charge · monetary · pecuniary
Prevention via threatened consequences
- preventionStopping something before occurring
- dissuasionConvincing someone not to
- warningAlert about danger
- threatIndication of potential harm
consequence · fear · intimidation · discouragement · prohibition · cautionary · example · severity
Recovery from injury/addiction
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- reformationProcess of improving institutions
- remediationAct of correcting faults
- therapyCurative mental treatment
counseling · corrective · behavioral · modification · treatment · intervention · reintegration · probation
Retaliation for injury
- revengePunishing a wrongdoer
- paybackRetaliation for wrongs
- retaliationPunitive response to injury
- reprisalPunitive action in return
comeuppance · reciprocity · tit-for-tat · requital · redress · counterblow · backlash · karma
flogging
Beating as punishment
lashing · beating · paddling · birching · strapping · switching · bastinado · stocks · pillory · branding
sentencing
Imposing legal punishment
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- convictionFirmly held belief
prosecution · court · judge · trial · verdict · jury · defendant · guilty · appeal · parole
consequences
Results of actions taken
- rulesPrinciples governing behavior
- authorityPower to enforce obedience
- obedienceCompliance with authority
enforcement · behavior · conduct · standards · expectations · accountability · structure · order · regulation · guidelines
fine
Acceptable in quality
- forfeitureLoss due to breach
- sanctionApproval or punitive measure
- damagesCompensation for injury
restitution · compensation · levy · surcharge · fee · assessment · charge · monetary · pecuniary · fiscal
deterrence
Prevention via threatened consequences
- preventionStopping something before occurring
- dissuasionConvincing someone not to
- warningAlert about danger
threat · consequence · fear · intimidation · discouragement · prohibition · cautionary · example · severity · harshness
rehabilitation
Recovery from injury/addiction
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- reformationProcess of improving institutions
- remediationAct of correcting faults
therapy · counseling · corrective · behavioral · modification · treatment · intervention · reintegration · probation · diversion
vengeance
Retaliation for injury
- revengePunishing a wrongdoer
- paybackRetaliation for wrongs
- retaliationPunitive response to injury
reprisal · comeuppance · reciprocity · tit-for-tat · requital · redress · counterblow · backlash · karma · reckoning
- infernohellfire, hellscape, brimstone, sulfur, limbo
- Islamic afterlifehereafter, reckoning, scales of justice, heaven and hell, eternal life
- DanteDivine Comedy, Inferno, Dante, Paradiso, Beatrice
- kinkdom, domme, submissives, master, slave
- constraintsconstraint, limits, restrictions, deadline, restraints
- Inquisitioninquisition, heretic, inquisitors, heretics, heresy trial
punishmentsrewards
Benefits given for merit
prizes · awards · incentives · bonuses · commendations
punishmentspardons
Official forgiveness of crimes
forgiveness · clemency · amnesty · reprieves · absolution
punishmentscrimes
Unlawful acts
offenses · transgressions · violations · misdeeds · sins
- capital punishmentExecution by legal authority
- glutton for punishmentOne who seeks suffering
- sucker for punishmentOne who invites suffering
- corporal punishmentInflicting pain as penalty
- divine punishmentJudgment from a deity
- physical punishmentPain-based behavioral correction