By Terance D. Miethe
This ebook identifies and examines the assets of similarities and variations in varieties of financial punishments, incapacitation units and constructions, and deadly and non-lethal sorts of corporal punishment through the years and position. The authors survey punishment responses to crime and deviance throughout various areas of the area and in particular nations just like the usa, China, and Saudi Arabia.
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Japan 1946–48: The Arab League vs. Zionist movement in Palestine/Israel 1950s and 1960s: 1951: UK vs. Iran 1954: USSR vs. Australia 1960: USA vs. Cuba 1962: West Germany vs. USSR 1966: United Nations (UN) vs. Rhodesia 1970s and 1980s: 1971: France vs. Algeria 1977: United Nations vs. South Africa 1980: USA vs. USSR Actions Boycott of English goods because of the Stamp Act. France declared rice contraband. Trade embargo/restrictions for Invasion of Abyssinia. Trade boycott/financial restriction to prevent Japan’s movement toward southern Indo-China.
Regardless of their formal or informal status, punishment is a ubiquitous feature of social control in the modern world. 17 We group these sanctions into three major categories: (1) economic punishments that involve direct financial consequences to offenders, (2) incapacitative sanctions that physically restrain behavioral patterns, and (3) corporal punishments that involve death or physical suffering through the direct application of physical force on the human body. 18 The nature of specific punishments within these general categories is highlighted below.
1: International economic sanctions (examples) Country and decade 18th and 19th Centuries: 1765: American colonists vs. Britain 1883–85: France vs. China 1930s and 1940s: 1935 League of Nations vs. Italy 1939–41: USA, UK, and others vs. Japan 1946–48: The Arab League vs. Zionist movement in Palestine/Israel 1950s and 1960s: 1951: UK vs. Iran 1954: USSR vs. Australia 1960: USA vs. Cuba 1962: West Germany vs. USSR 1966: United Nations (UN) vs. Rhodesia 1970s and 1980s: 1971: France vs. Algeria 1977: United Nations vs.
