Is rehabilitation rather than punitive justice the answer and what will stop the same family members passing through the same prison doors?

Forced sterilization will not solve the problem, but it will push this society toward an even more punitive justice.

In this she advocated abolishing the idea of punitive justice as a guiding principle of criminal law.

In Iraq, there is too much interest in punitive justice and too little interest in truth and reconciliation.

As Michel Droit, Mayor of Lyons, said in June, "Rather than punitive justice, we want instructive justice."

He links the concept of evil to our judicial system, which seeks to create justice via punishment - punitive justice - punishing acts that are seen as bad or wrong.

The difficulty of dislodging the social elite makes it require a totalitarian state to disenfranchise the "enemies of the people" quickly and efficiently and a desire for normalcy overcomes the desire for punitive justice.

As Foote and his two leadies, each of them again lugging a heavy case, got back into their flapple, he said to himself, I wonder whose card the computer will pop . . . and, theoretically anyhow, set the wheels of punitive justice turning.