punishment

Summary

punishment ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (918 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• punishment was followed by recidivism^[2].
• punishment was followed by reform^[3].
• punishment is a type of action^[4].
• punishment is a type of result^[5].
• punishment is part of carrot and stick^[6].
• punishment is part of criminal law^[7].
• punishment is part of religious doctrine^[8].
• punishment is part of legal act^[9].
• punishment's Commons category is recorded as Punishments^[10].
• punishment is the opposite of reward^[11].
• punishment comprises disciplinary action^[12].
• punishment's has cause is recorded as punishment^[13].
• punishment's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Punishments^[14].
• punishment's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary^[15].
• punishment's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[16].
• punishment's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[17].
• punishment's described by source is recorded as Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste^[18].
• punishment's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[19].
• punishment's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[20].
• punishment's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron^[21].
• punishment's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[22].
• punishment's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge^[23].
• punishment's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[24].
• punishment's has characteristic is recorded as undesirability^[25].
• punishment's main Wikidata property is recorded as P1596^[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include action^[4] and result^[5]. punishment is the opposite of reward^[11].

Use and Application

punishment comprises disciplinary action^[12]. Part of include carrot and stick^[6], a metaphor^[27]; criminal law^[7], an area of law^[28]; religious doctrine^[8], a type of world view^[29]; and legal act^[9].

Why It Matters

punishment ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (918 views/month).^[1] punishment has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[30] punishment is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[31]