Punish - Law Dictionary Search Results
Reprieve
A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence especially of a sentence of death
Punitive
Of or pertaining to punishment involving awarding or inflicting punishment as punitive law or justice
operant conditioning
A process for causing animals to behave in a specific manner by rewarding or punishing the animal each time it performs a certain act after a time the animal comes to associate the
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Damn
To condemn to declare guilty to doom to adjudge to punishment to sentence to censure
Chastisement
The act of chastising pain inflicted for punishment and correction discipline punishment
youthful offender
range) who commits a crime but is granted special status entitling him or her to a more lenient punishment (as one involving probation or confinement in a special youth correctional facility) than would otherwise be available compare
suspend
suspend 1 : to debar temporarily from a privilege, office, or function 2 a : to stop temporarily [ trading] b : to make temporarily ineffective [ a license] c : stay [ a hearing] d...
probation
probation [Middle French, critical examination and evaluation, from Latin probation- probatio, from probare to test, approve, prove] 1 a : subjection to a period of evaluation and possible termination at the commencement of employment in a...
Aggravated assaults
the assault or battery is of such an aggravated nature that it cannot in their opinion be sufficiently punished under the provisions of s. 42 as to common assaults and batteries,' to give a convicted offender six
pass
pass 1 a : to issue a decision, verdict, or opinion [the Supreme Court ed on a statute] b : to be legally issued [judgment ed by default] 2 : to go from the control, ownership,...
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