Deterrence (legal)

use of punishment as a threat to deter people from offending From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In law, the term deterrence is used to describe the situation where punishment or threat is used to keep people from committing a crime. Both the person who committed a crime, as well as other people should be kept from committing that kind of crime.

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