If then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal (or deviant) and will treat them as such.

In the past, society punished the offenders by drowning them in the sea.

The American Medical Association is also asking the trade commission to let local medical societies punish doctors for fee gouging.

But to persuade the individual to carry out this ethical commitment, society cannot ostracize, punish or hound the sufferers.

Rather than warehousing people in an overburdened prison, society punishes the guilty by having them serve the community.

While the practice is condemned as barbaric by many present-day societies, some societies punish the victims of rape as well as the perpetrators.

This society has punished only a few of the guilty ones, endangering the democracy we all cherish.

Rapes, whippings, beatings, and unwanted touching of another's body are against the law, and society will and should punish the offender.

But the thesis of this article is that society punishes playwrights for their views, not for the manner in which they communicate them.