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Discouraging an offender or other people from committing crime through the threat or experience of punishment.

Punishment intended to discourage an offender or other people from committing crime.

Supporters may emphasise retribution, giving offenders a deserved punishment, or deterrence, discouraging further crime. Opponents may emphasise human dignity and reformation, helping offenders change their behaviour.

Discouraging crime through the fear of punishment.

An aim of punishment that seeks to discourage the offender or other people from committing crime through fear of its consequences.

Discouraging someone from committing a crime through the threat or experience of punishment.

Discouraging people from committing crimes through the threat of punishment.

Four important aims are justice, retribution, deterrence and reformation. One sentence can serve several aims.

Using punishment or its threat to discourage an offender or other people from committing crimes.

Discouraging an offender or other people from committing crime through the prospect or experience of punishment.

Discouraging the offender or other people from committing crime through the prospect of punishment.

Using punishment to discourage an offender or other people from committing crimes.

Discouraging crime through the prospect or experience of punishment.

Distinguish the purpose of a punishment from its form: imprisonment is a punishment; retribution, deterrence and reformation are aims.

Distinguish deterrence, which discourages other people from offending, from preventing the executed offender from reoffending.

Distinguish retribution, which concerns deserved punishment, from deterrence, which aims to prevent future crime.