punishment
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Gary Becker’s 1968 classic paper, “Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach,” revolutionized our understanding of crime by treating it as a rational response to expected costs and benefits.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
Punishment for that kind of act, which the BBC is unable to verify, would be severe.
From BBC • May 31, 2025
Punishment reflects who we are and who we want to be.
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2025
In the chapter “Except as a Punishment for Crime” — named for the exception to emancipation embedded in the 13th Amendment — Pfaelzer lays out the way California virtually invented the prison industrial complex.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2023
But I thought of how few people there were in Elysium, how tiny it was compared to the Fields of Asphodel or even the Fields of Punishment.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing punishment
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