punitive measures
Penalties for wrongdoing
Punitive measures are actions taken to punish rather than to compensate, deter, or reform.
The phrase appears most often in legal, diplomatic, and institutional contexts: The UN imposed punitive measures on the regime, The school's punitive measures included suspension.
Unlike remedial measures, which aim to fix problems, punitive measures aim to make wrongdoers suffer consequences.
- finesMonetary sanctions or particles
- sanctionsPunitive international restrictions
- probationSupervised trial period
- suspensionTemporary halt or exclusion
- imprisonmentLegal detention in jail
hard time · ostracism · trade embargoes · wage garnishment · retribution · shaming · name and shame · mob justice · asset forfeiture · social exclusion · reparations · expulsion · cancel culture · disbarment · tariffs · stigma · penalty · contempt of court
- punishmentprison, jail, execution, hanging, lethal injection
- retributionretribution, revenge, payback, vengeance, retaliation
- tough justicetough on crime, law and order, mandatory minimums, zero tolerance, mass incarceration
- criminologycrime, criminology, criminal behavior, criminologist, criminalization
- prison disciplinesolitary confinement, the hole, loss of privileges, lockdown, disciplinary action
- criminal justicearrest, jail, court, prison, crime
punitive measuresrewards
Benefits given for merit
incentives · positive reinforcement · bonuses · inducements · carrots
punitive measuresleniency
Mildness in punishment
clemency · amnesty · forgiveness · restorative justice · tolerance
punitive measuresrestorative justice
Conflict resolution through mutual healing
support services · counseling · community service · mediation · reconciliation