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Synonyms for punitive

inflicting or aiming to inflict punishment

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Synonyms for punitive

inflicting punishment

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To begin, the historical context which laid the groundwork for the turn in public and political punitiveness in the 1970s is outlined.
A less obvious source of episodic punitiveness is the judiciary itself.
The street- (or barn- or factory- or power-plant-) level regulator is embedded in a system in which regulations are not simply enforced with varying degrees of firmness and punitiveness. Instead, regulations have to be created (by policymakers), interpreted and elaborated (by regulatory agencies), transformed into standards (by standard-setting bodies), and used in measurements and ratings (by certification and classification societies).
The new punitiveness; trends, theories, perspectives.
Alongside exacerbating the punitiveness of detention by ASIO, the secrecy offences also increase the risk of torture.
"William Horton's Long Shadow: Punitiveness and Managerialism
Politicians vie for punitiveness and indignation in the face of crimes.
This study examined the hypothesis that four dimensions of maternal parenting (warmth, punitiveness, intrusiveness, and involvement in school activities) relate to child kindergarten competence, as measured by the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-R), and to teacher-rated child's memory of teacher instructions.
California leads in numbers incarcerated, the clout of its prison guards' union and the punitiveness of its ballot initiatives, but the Bay Area also leads in numbers and inventiveness of prison activist groups and coalitions.
The CIS consists of 26 items, divided into four subscales: positive interaction, punitiveness, detachment, and permissiveness.
In his book Malign Neglect, Tonry is sharply critical of the punitiveness of crime policy since the 1980s.
The first part examines the realities of agendas of criminalization and increased punitiveness through incarceration rates.
Given the indiscriminativeness of authoritarians' prejudice, Altemeyer and Bruce Hunsberger labeled them "equal-opportunity bigots, disliking all `different' people regardless of race, creed, or color." Research by Linda Wylie and James Forest of the University of Manitoba also found that authoritarianism is highly correlated with religious fundamentalism and an important predictor of racial and ethnic prejudice, homophobia, and punitiveness. Lee Kirkpatrick at the College of William and Mary surveyed college students and found that "fundamentalism was correlated more positively than Christian orthodoxy" with discriminatory attitudes toward blacks, women, homosexuals, and communists.
Over the last two decades the punitiveness of the juvenile justice system has declined substantially relative to that of the adult courts.