What is Punishment, and does it really work?

Date Submitted: 01/26/2004 05:13:22
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 4 pages (972 words)
"Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance." <Tab/><Tab/> --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), Punishment is but one of many means of ensuring discipline. Punishment can be defined on a fundamental level as a penalty imposed for a wrong doing - breaking of rules, regulations, laws or policies. A more focused definition would be …
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