Thus, punishment involves the infliction of pain or forfeiture; it is a judicial visitation with a penalty, correction or scolding. In his book entitled "Criminal Behaviour", Walier Reckless describes punishment as "the redress that the commonwealth takes against an offending member." In the words of Westermarck, punishment is "Such suffering as is inflicted upon the offender in a definite way by, or in the name of the society of which he is permanent or temporary
Thus, punishment involves the infliction of pain or forfeiture; it is a judicial visitation with a penalty, correction or scolding. In his book entitled "Criminal Behaviour", Walier Reckless describes punishment as "the redress that the commonwealth takes against an offending member." In the words of Westermarck, punishment is "Such suffering as is inflicted upon the offender in a definite way by, or in the name of the society of which he is permanent or temporary