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  2. Monjeríos - Wikipedia

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    [1] [7] Friar Estevan Tápias, who was the president of the mission system in California between 1803 and 1812, reported on punishment as follows: [1] The stocks in the apartment of the girls and single women are older than the Fathers who report on the mission. As a rule, the transgressions of the women are punished with one, two, or three ...

  3. Landlord harassment - Wikipedia

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    For example, in California, Civil Code Section 1954, limits the landlord's right of entry, [10] in New Mexico, there is an extensive "Owner-Resident Relations Act" [11] and in New York City, a Certification Of No Harassment (COHN) is required to make any occupancy alterations.

  4. Ewing v. California - Wikipedia

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    Michigan, [2] the United States Supreme Court could not agree on the precise reasoning to uphold the sentence. But, with the decision in Ewing and the companion case Lockyer v. Andrade , [ 3 ] the Court effectively foreclosed criminal defendants from arguing that their non-capital sentences were disproportional to the crime they had committed.

  5. Punishment (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    positive punishment, punishment by application, or type I punishment, an experimenter punishes a response by presenting an aversive stimulus into the animal's surroundings (a brief electric shock, for example). negative punishment, punishment by removal, or type II punishment, a valued, appetitive stimulus is removed (as in the removal of a ...

  6. Time-out (parenting) - Wikipedia

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    He considered removal from a positive emotional environment to one of lesser positivity as a very mild punishment. Various people have added their opinions regarding time-out as the following indicates. Time out is a type two punishment procedure (negative punishment), and is used commonly in schools, colleges, offices, clinics and homes. [8]

  7. Misdemeanor - Wikipedia

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    A misdemeanor is considered a crime of lesser seriousness, and a felony one of greater seriousness. [2] The maximum punishment for a misdemeanor is less than that for a felony under the principle that the punishment should fit the crime. [3] [4] [5] One standard for measurement is the degree to which a crime affects others or society ...

  8. Prosecutorial misconduct - Wikipedia

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    In jurisprudence, prosecutorial misconduct or prosecutorial overreach is "an illegal act or failing to act, on the part of a prosecutor, especially an attempt to sway the jury to wrongly convict a defendant or to impose a harsher than appropriate punishment." [1] It is similar to selective prosecution. Prosecutors are bound by a set of rules ...

  9. An Expressive Theory of Punishment - Wikipedia

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    978-1-137-35712-0 An Expressive Theory of Punishment is a 2016 book by Bill Wringe, in which the author tries to develop and argue for what he refers to as a " denunciatory theory " of punishment . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]