Punishment vs Retributionist - What's the difference?
punishment | retributionist |
The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.
A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution
(figuratively) Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished; rough handling
One who holds that there must be retribution (vengeance, punishment) for transgressions.
* 1893 October, New Ways With Old Offenders'', in ''The Nineteenth Century , volume 34, page 625:
* 2011 , Evan J. Mandery, Capital Punishment in America: A Balanced Examination , page 475:
As nouns the difference between punishment and retributionist
is that punishment is the act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction while retributionist is one who holds that there must be retribution (vengeance, punishment) for transgressions.punishment
English
Noun
(en noun)- a vehicle that can take a lot of punishment
Synonyms
* castigation * punition * beatingAntonyms
* rewardHyponyms
* retributionDerived terms
* corporal punishment * mirror punishment * (l)retributionist
English
Noun
(en noun)- The retributionist says — I quote from Sir James F. Stephen — ‘The criminal law proceeds upon the principle that it is morally right to hate criminals, and it confirms and justifies that sentiment by inflicting upon criminals punishments which express it.’
- A lex talionis retributionist would likely maintain that neither the passage of time nor a radical change in the character of the defendant alleviates society's duty to punish the properly convicted. Immanuel Kant captured this notion when he argued that before a civil society could disband, it had to execute the last murderer in its prisons.
References
* Charles F. Abel, Frank H. Marsh, Punishment and Restitution: A Restitutionary Approach to Crime and the Criminal (Greenwood Press, 1984),pages 8–9* the Oxford English Dictionary
