punitiveness

"But the disparity goes way beyond that into differences in punitiveness," he said.

"The bath water was the punitiveness because the person did not participate.

But have these expanded powers and the concomitant increase in punitiveness had the desired effect upon crime?

These verses are traditionally interpreted, with bafflement and dismay, as a statement of God's punitiveness.

One of the most troublesome symptoms of 'stress' that teachers report, for example, is an increasing punitiveness towards both pupils, colleagues and family.

In 1995 Sir Anthony coined the term 'populist punitiveness' to describe one of the key influences which he saw at work on contemporary criminal justice and penal systems.

He focuses particularly on the behavior and unwavering punitiveness of Macy and his "Black Wizard" star of a forensic chemist, Gilchrist.

Measuring changes in prison capacity alone is an insufficient measure of punitiveness in the Netherlands because these numbers do not accurately represent the incarceration needs of the Dutch.

Right-wing authoritarianism is characterized by obedience to authority, moral absolutism, racial and ethnic prejudice, and intolerance and punitiveness towards dissidents and deviants.

Finally, it should be noted that while a system of guide-lines might be expected to reduce disparity in sentencing, there is no guarantee that it would reduce the overall level of punitiveness.

There would also be a number of practical difficulties, however, in extending such a model to the English sentencing tradition, particularly if a system of legislative guide-lines were adopted, and more so if they were explicitly aimed at reducing overall punitiveness.

Twenty years ago the Advisory Council on the Penal System observed that notions of punitiveness do not accord with 'the British concept of probation as an alternative to, rather than a suspension of, punishment'(quoted in Bochel, 1976, p. 238).

In his introduction to Gabbidon's 2007 W.E.B. Du Bois on crime and justice, Agozino notes that "excessive punitiveness" in the criminal justice systems of the US, UK, South Africa and Russia has been increasing rather than reducing the problem of crime.

The Morgenthau Plan had recommended that the Allies create a post-war Germany with all its industrial capacity destroyed, reduced to a level of subsistence farming; however, that plan was soon abandoned as unrealistic and too likely, because of its punitiveness, to give rise to another round of German anger and aggressiveness.