Meaning of funishment | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A proposed treatment of criminals that would take them out of wider society (like a traditional prison) but without aiming to punish them.
   uncountable
2. A "punishment" administered for the enjoyment of the submissive, rather than as discipline.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“I cannot elaborate in full detail here on the way things would unfold, but the crux is that hard determinism is seen to collapse upon itself: institutions of “funishment” will lose their ability to deter, and prove self-defeating.”

“Funishment would resemble punishment in that criminals would be incarcerated apart from lawful society; and institutions of funishment would also need to be as secure as current prisons, to prevent criminals from escaping.”

“If constraint, no matter how minimal, involves an adverse element that is undeserved punishment, quarantine advocates must provide, in [Saul] Smilansky's words, compensatory “funishment.””

“[…] when punishment turns into “funishment”, and the Minuscule starts “acting out” in order to have some desired masochistic play.”

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